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Sure, the “Staycation” may be the talk of these times, but trends are made for bucking.  With characteristic fear of the traveling unknown, we hopped on a red-eye with the girls and headed east to Cape Cod for 10 days with the Grandparents Bradley, Aunts Nisa and Laura, Uncle Truman, and Cousins Maren and Alden.  [...]

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Fun weekend, but the biggest fun of all was seeing Eleanor run the Seattle edition of the Danskin Triathlon. Early in the morning, Eleanor left the house to get to the race course, swim in Lake Washington, bike to Mercer Island and back, and run to Seward Park.  The girls perferred a later start, but [...]

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Sadly, there must be something about this time of year and dogs in our extended family– Eleanor’s parent’s dog Snickers (named Snickers because their previous dog was named Peanut– a nice touch) was put to sleep this weekend. Bye Snickers, you were a good dog… … which reminds me…

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This weekend, we did our first family weekend get away (yes, that’s right, the first – not so easy to pack up and go with twins).  We spent Saturday night at Suncadia, a beautiful resort 1-1/2 hours east of Seattle, in the midst of the Cascades, overlooking the Cle Elum river.  The weekend away was my [...]

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Lynn and Bernadette, two of my best friends from business school, came to Seattle this past weekend for a mini-reunion.   We added two small, spotted girls and a largish boy to our fun.  Lydia and Hadley came down with some sort of virus last week.  In the midst of Seattle’s hottest day on record (103! [...]

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We had a really nice day, celebrating the girls 1st year.  Allan and I came home from work early and spent the afternoon with the girls down at Madison Park — we dipped the girls’ toes in Lake Washington (too cold, was the girls’ feeling) and spent lots of time in the baby swings (big [...]

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