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Music Monday: 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory (Dropkick Murphys)

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Music Monday: 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory (Dropkick Murphys)

So I picked up Dropkick Murphys new album. And I decided to spring for the deluxe edition. This comes with a 26 page book featuring lyrics, photos and more. I was looking forward to this item. Ultimately I was disappointed when it came because the booklet is alright, but the disc itself is housed on…

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More Tiger Sweaters Needed

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More Tiger Sweaters Needed

I told you a little bit about about the 20th annual Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Sweater Drive kickoff at the KCTS 9 Seattle Center studio (and most likely your own local PBS station). Now that local (for Seattle) drive is expanding. New and gently used items can be donated at the Redmond and Bellevue branches of…

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Winter Camp 2017

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Winter Camp 2017

Oh man, this was a fun weekend. Cub Scout Winter Camp is certainly a highlight of the Scouting calendar, and this year did not disappoint. Actually, it was the best outing in years. How much fun was it this time? I will let Ciaran answer that in this video. Did you see that? No, I’m…

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Phamily Foto Phriday 1-20-17

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Phamily Foto Phriday 1-20-17

Yes, this is Monday. I know this is late. This post was actually ready to go up on Friday, but I was busy getting ready to go to Cub Scout Winter Camp. And that will be a separate post. Here are a few pictures of the kids and what they have been up to recently….

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Parental Blockage

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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, and chances are you haven’t, you will have noticed a drop in the frequency of direct parenting related posts. It isn’t for a lack of content. Just this morning Tevye took off his pajamas and underwear to dance – because last summer watching the gymnastics he…

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Music Monday: 10 Teenage Albums

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Music Monday: 10 Teenage Albums

This week’s entry comes courtesy of a Facebook trend I thought was a good idea to turn into a post. Rather than simply have a status update with a list I would flesh it out a little with a sentence or two about each album and why it is included. Here are the directions as…

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Nibble Nibble

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Nibble Nibble

So we find Tevye’s container of snack, some yogurt covered pretzels, and they are partially eaten. Not even half-eaten, but instead much of the yogurt covering has been nibbled off. These were not the only ones. A few others were to be found the next morning. Seriously. He nibbled the yogurt covering off of the…

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Music Monday: Hometown Throwdown 19

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Music Monday: Hometown Throwdown 19

“Hey, how was your trip to Boston?” I’m glad you asked. While I have traveled to Boston several times, this is my third time going specifically to see the Mighty Mighty Bosstones during their Hometown Throwdown. I am incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to go, and by myself, which leaves Laura home with the…

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Ranking The Beatles: Please Please Me (Beatles Week 2016 Day 14)

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Ranking The Beatles: Please Please Me (Beatles Week 2016 Day 14)

Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. This album, their first, represents pretty much the band’s live set at the time. I have the Vee-Jay album Introducing The Beatles which has many of these songs as well and was an interesting artifact of the time. I do prefer this version, this album,…

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Phamily Foto Phriday – 2016 Catch-Up Part 3

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Phamily Foto Phriday – 2016 Catch-Up Part 3

Here is the last of my catch-up series for pictures. Hopefully I’ll be back to the normal (mostly) weekly posting schedule for these. So I turned around and these two clowns were like this. Tevye just thought it was the funniest thing ever. Ciaran made himself a triple-decker peanut butter sandwich. That’s three layers of…

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