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Today Son reached a significant milestone: he read the entirety of “Green Eggs and Ham.” He had a bit of assistance, and it took him about a half hour. It took real persistence and attention; it’s the first time he’s read a book of this length. I’m very proud of him.

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Popup camping in the Connecticut River Valley For our first camping trip with the popup, we ventured to the Connecticut River Valley for a weekend trip. We didn’t have much of an agenda planned, my only goal was to do some pupup camping and check out Gillette Castle. I had wanted to visit Gillette castle [...]

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Son brought home this frog on a lilly pad today. He tells me the purple scribble over the frog is from a crayon color check, it’s not really part of the composition.

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Son’s reading is neither a trick of memorization nor a fluke. He can definitely sight-read familiar words, sound out unfamiliar words, and take good guesses at difficult words. He definitely gets intimidated by longer sentences, and his attention span is not the best, but he will take a good shot at brief sentences. One of [...]

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A few weeks ago, we got an itch we just had to scratch. Basically we woke up one day and realized that the time had come for us to get a pop-up camper. The Wife had spent many an idyllic youthful camping trip in one. For me, it was a logical step up from a [...]

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Son made this “trim little boat” out of a popsicle stick, yarn, and construction paper.

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The Photo Idea Index If I had a zillion dollars, I would buy this book for all my photo enthusiast friends: Photo Idea Index by Jim Krause. It is appropriate for beginners and advanced shooters alike. It is filled with small nuggets of ideas for everything photographic. Each page has a simple theme, and each [...]

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