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		<title>A pregnant new year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See that cinder block chimney? A month ago it was 10 feet shorter. See that belly? A month ago it was 5 centimeters smaller. At the rate our family projects are progressing, we should be quite busy come March. The Versluys bungalow continues to grow and expand, layer upon layer added each week. Occasionally changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Turkeys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nora was very proud of her new polka-dot shirt this month. She had to tell Aunt Mo all about it. Oma came for nearly a week from Colorado, and I don&#8217;t know if I took even one photo of her with the kids during her visit. I have to check my camera, but I suspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lovely fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is me on my wedding day, according to the artist. Quincy was quite proud of her portrayal. For Halloween, the girls used tacks to decorate their pumpkin. My friend Holly found this idea online and I ran with it for the kids. Wow. It sure was nice to avoid gutting pumpkins. Granted, pumpkin carving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roofless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the middle of November, and after our season&#8217;s first snowfall last week we are full steam ahead on the remodel.  The front half of the roof came off yesterday, and our builder is already laying the upstairs subfloor.  We&#8217;re hoping to have the roof back on with walls, siding, and windows by the middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brownies are for Papa.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever watched gingersnap cookies baking? No matter how much the baker deviated from the &#8220;roll into a ball&#8221; instruction, so long as the dough is in some semblance of a clump or pile it melts into a perfect circle. Which makes the cookie a delightful project for preschoolers &#8211; they always get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roma likes to chat with &#8220;Mr. Ogilvie&#8221; &#8211; Jim, our contractor.   This picture was taken when we were still using our kitchen at home while the kitchen was unfinished over at Mom and Dad V&#8217;s across the street.  Hereafter, I will refer to our home as 1000 and the Vs&#8217; house as 1003. Yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victorious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This photo is a bit blurry, seeing as how it&#8217;s saved from Facebook via my phone. But I&#8217;m sure you can tell that there are three women standing together. There were also two little girls present, one in utero (Nora) and one trying to get out of the stroller (Quincy). This photo was pulled from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Autumn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel like the little old lady who swallowed a fly. Except I&#8217;m at about the bird stage, I think &#8211; unless it&#8217;s a kitten in there rather than an adult cat. Somewhere in between bird and cat, let&#8217;s just say. Adrian&#8217;s is proving to be the least predictable pregnancy thus far. The delay til [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nora and Adrian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a weekend. See my youngest girl there on the left? She was born two years ago almost exactly. I actually woke with my insomnia at 3:15ish&#8230; In time to relive the moment at 3:19 a.m. when she arrived. Definitely didn&#8217;t need to do that. Neither insomnia nor the memory of pain from Nora&#8217;s 18 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Quattro just hangs out&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rain. Fair. Family hike. There, you&#8217;re caught up. Really, life has been absurdly busy of late. At least most of it has been a productive and/or enjoyable kind of busy. Last Wednesday, we had a blast at the fair. The kids really enjoyed hanging with the aunts, uncles and grandmothers for the day; Aunt Alison [...]]]></description>
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