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winter break: day 6
Sometimes plans don't go the way you want... Monday night I think I got maybe 3 hours of sleep. Emma didn't sleep at all and was up all night running to the bathroom. Olivia slept through everything, but Braden and I did not. We tried to
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winter break: day 5
We always take the bus to Duluth over Memorial Day weekend. Last year we decided we wanted to check it out during the winter. Braden ended up taking this week off, so we decided to take a 3 day trip up to Duluth again during the girls winter break. This
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winter break: day 2
I can't remember the last time we've been to the zoo (I feel like I say that every time we visit). With the girls in school and so many fun no school day places to go we really don't get to the zoo that
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what a day
I've been mentally preparing for this day for weeks. It started with Olivia's last basketball game of the season. I'm so glad she tried basketball. She really had fun doing it... and she's pretty good. We had to leave the basketball game
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peanut butter
Emma started following this local place's YouTube channel over a year ago, and since then has been asking for a snake. Surprisingly she knows a lot about them - all the different kinds, what they eat, how to set up their habitat. I've been against it. Mostly
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happy thanksgiving
We loved spending Thanksgiving in Wisconsin Dells last year, so why not do it again? This time we surprised the girls with the trip... and we brought some friends along. The last time we came the girls really wanted to drive the go carts, but Emma isn't old
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throwback thursday (november 24, 2021)
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11 baskets
Another weekend... another basketball game. This was her fifth game. In the first 4 games she maybe scored 1 or 2 baskets. This game I stopped counting at 8. Emma said she made 11.
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state semi-finals
Our town's high school football team played in the state semi-finals last night at US Bank Stadium (where the MN Vikings play). We had decided earlier in the week we would wait to go see them in the championship game, but just about everyone we know was
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throwback thursday (november 17, 2021)
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moa
Olivia is pretty terrified of shots. I told her if I didn't have to pin her down for her annual flu shot this time she could pick what we did for the rest of the day. Of course she picked Mall of America. Usually when the girls don&