Austin on March 6th, 2010

Some days, I am faced with some interesting surprises.  The unfortunate thing is, occasionally, they are surprise time bombs.  As I have mentioned in earlier posts, Mason loves to tear the house apart daily by scattering his toys around the house.  Well, he has decided to step things up a notch.  Once his toys are [...]

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Austin on February 14th, 2010

It is no surprise to us by now that when Mason gets sick, Laura and I are in for trouble.  This last illness started about a week ago with Mason running a high fever for a few days.  Although, you would never know it from the fact that Mason does not slow down for a [...]

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Austin on January 5th, 2010

As I mentioned in my last post, Laura and I have two Christmases, one with my parents and one with her parents.  This year at her parents did not go as either one of us expected.  As it turned out, the weather worked against us.
The week of Christmas, Laura and I had planned on heading [...]

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Austin on December 22nd, 2009

Every year, Laura and I have two Christmases, one at my parents and one at her parents.  This year, we decided to do things with my family a little differently.  We invited my folks and my sister and her husband over to our house for Christmas.  While the day overall went well, the days leading up [...]

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Austin on December 14th, 2009

Mid last week, all the weather stations were calling for a huge snow storm to hit the area the first part of this week.  I do not really put much stock into the weather reports because they are usually wrong anyway.  They were calling for 8-16 inches of snow then strong winds to blow everything [...]

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