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		<title>Bouncing Into 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the great cycle of holiday rotation it was our turn to host Christmas, which was good considering the fact that this year the whole extended family went in together to purchase the kids a trampoline. Now, we have hauled an amazing amount of things back and forth across this great state, but I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 8th Birthday, Stella!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Stelly, Happy New Year! Happy Birthday!&#8230;.a month late. Why so late this year? Well, partially it has to do with the fact that within a period of 4 weeks our family pulled off two major holidays, a dance recital and two birthday parties. It&#8217;s like somehow our entire year&#8217;s activities get squished into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2012/01/06/1463/</link>
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		<title>Happy 8th Birthday, Sweet Girl!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(more to come soon!)]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/12/09/happy-8th-birthday-sweet-girl/</link>
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		<title>Please sign here, here and here. Oh, and initial here.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere along the line, our renovations here at 111 took a very odd turn. We started so simple. From the wood-floor-over-wood-floor exercise to The Great Berry Abatement of &#8217;07, and the gargantuan 2-piece built-in, plus the infamous Man-Shed, but that was not to be outdone by the Passion Vine &#038; Cup &#8216;o Java Facelift. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/09/11/please-sign-here-here-and-here-oh-and-initial-here/</link>
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		<title>Leaving the Nest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it started with Kindergarten orientation &#8211; no, wait &#8211; make that soccer &#8211; no, no, no back that train up. Make that day camp. Day Camp is when we started seeing the writing on the wall. The writing that said &#8220;Oh Here Go Hell Come&#8221;. The last couple weeks with Little P have broken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/08/29/leaving-the-nest/</link>
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		<title>Summer Vacation, blar-de-blar-blar.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay folks, I&#8217;m going to make this quick because quite honestly I&#8217;m already over it just from rounding up everyone&#8217;s photos. And when it comes to the &#8220;What I did for Summer Vacation&#8221; posts, we&#8217;ve all kind of been there and done that. At last count, I&#8217;ve written about 10 of them, and they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/08/01/summer-vacation-blar-de-blar-blar/</link>
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		<title>Putting the Memori in Memorial Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An hour after Stella and Steve left for the rollerskating party I get a phone call: &#8220;Um, so we just left the party. Stella fell pretty hard on her wrist. She&#8217;s being a trooper, but I&#8217;m thinking we should probably have it checked out.&#8221; So, 4 hours in the dearth of human existence &#8211; otherwise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/05/30/putting-the-memori-in-memorial-day/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Jungle Cats!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ll just let her tell the story&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/05/30/its-about-jungle-cats/</link>
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		<title>Passing the Torch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday was Stella&#8217;s open house at school. Here is her self-portrait from the portrait wall; she obviously has her father&#8217;s ears. Then there was this little gem. I gave her some grief about the little brother crack, especially considering what happened next. We figured that, as long as we were there, it would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/05/22/passing-the-torch/</link>
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		<title>Looking in the rearview mirror.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day. Normally, this is the part where I&#8217;d be going on a tirade about how my children have no concept of what it means to be civil to each other for more than a 1-hour interval &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day be damned. And, as much as I love being able to utilize the internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/05/08/looking-in-the-rearview-mirror/</link>
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		<title>Happy 5th Birthday, Porter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Porter, Today you turn 5 years old. And at this point I think I&#8217;m going to suggest you grab some juice, your blanket and thumb, and sit a spell &#8211; because this could take a while. First, I want to tidy up a little unfinished business in regards to losing your first tooth. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/04/17/happy-5th-birthday-porter/</link>
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		<title>Tsunami Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Japan was hit with one of the worst earthquakes in history. The repercussions from this earthquake were many, one of which was widespread tsunami warnings for the outermost edges of the west coast &#8211; Humboldt County being one of them. Schools were closed, evacuations were imposed, and everyone waited to see exactly what would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/03/11/tsunami-friday/</link>
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		<title>Fuel to Her Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the other notable items from this year&#8217;s annual snow-stravaganza was that Stella found her holy grail in the form of a precocious boy and his feline sidekick. Yes, that is my fancy way of saying she&#8217;s totally addicted to Calvin &#038; Hobbes. At some point, while rifling through the stacks of books up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/03/01/fuel-to-her-fire/</link>
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		<title>And then there was snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the year. The year we would get Stella on the chair lift and the year we would get Porter on skis. And what do you know, but we did it! Or, they did it. Er, um, we facilitated it? Whatever. Stella slayed the chair-lift (with the one minor hiccup of nearly taking out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/02/28/and-then-there-was-snow/</link>
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		<title>Happy 7th Birthday, Stella</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey Sis, Well, here we are. Year 7. A year of growth, and change and life altering moments. If I&#8217;d ever had a 7 year old before, I might be able to have a little perspective. However, being that I have no recollection of being 7 myself, I instead find myself proud, conflicted, confused, excited, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2010/12/09/happy-7th-birthday-stella/</link>
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