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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Disturbing News (by Chris)

Monday, October 13, 2008 at 10:44pm Posted in Chris-on-the-Blog, Life at Home

Hey everyone – Chris here on the blog.  You ever have one of those moments when you hear a piece of news, and you think to yourself (or outlud): “Naaaaah.  That can’t be true!  No way! Certainly, there must be an explanation.  Is it April 1st? Someone is trying to play a joke on me.”...

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Iceland Poppies, Pumpkins, and Pizza

Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 2:25pm Posted in Uncategorized

Once (or maybe twice) when we lived in San Diego I was inspired to grow flowers in a thin patch of dirt that bordered the picket fence around our property.  I wanted to grow them from seeds – I thought it would be fun to watch them grow and bloom.  While I wanted to watch...

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Somewhere Out There was Jesse

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 1:56pm Posted in Uncategorized

It’s written all over her face – Darian is absolutely smitten with her son, Jesse.  She speaks to him in a gentle voice, she calls him her “sugar” or “treasure”, and for 2 hours celebrated with me everything that is “Jesse”.  It is no surprise, then, that her confident, loving, sweet 10 year old boy...

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The Van Noord Family!

Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 5:37pm Posted in Family Sessions, Life at Home

So, in honor of my maternal Grandmother’s upcoming birthday, we were asked to contribute to a scrapbook full of family images to contribute to the great big book.  Since we haven’t taken any “all family pictures” recently, we headed out to the Lake Merritt area of Oakland near (and in!) Chris’ office and explored a...

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