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I've been trying for 3 years to visit all 20 parks in our city. Despite my best efforts this summer we were 5 short. Then we were given the most amazing fall day today... AND there was no school! The girls and I (plus some friends) made it
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A couple months ago some friends of ours asked if we wanted to do a fall camping trip. We tried to camp in September last year, but cancelled both those trips. We really didn't want to this weekend... but we gave it a go. Despite the awful, cold,
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Yesterday was probably the last nice day for a while, so we made the most of it by riding bikes to school and visiting her principal. Last night he slept on the roof of their school because they exceeded their fundraising goal. We also squeezed in some time at the
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A friend of mine invited me and another one of our friends to celebrate her birthday with a spa day and a night out in downtown Minneapolis. The girls were looking forward to some daddy time. They had a blast shopping at Target, eating pizza, going to Crayola and riding
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This might be my favorite thing that Emma's school does. Today is the last day of a 2 week reading fundraiser. To celebrate the kids and teachers dress up as book characters. Last year Emma chose Fancy Nancy. This year she went with Pete the Cat. I loved
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Tonight our city invited kids to come put a hand print on one of their snow plows. It took the girls 30 seconds to do, but they had a good time. I have a feeling they're going to be looking for this snow plow on the road once
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We’ve spent all our Minnesota Thanksgivings, except one, with friends and their family. This year there is going to be 21 people to feed. Our turkey preparations started yesterday with brining three turkeys! This morning the smokers were going by 7 AM. Emma has been asking when the turkey
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Emma and I spent a lot of Monday mornings swimming at the YMCA last winter. When our neighborhood pool opened I cancelled my membership since we wouldn’t be using the indoor pool over the summer. I wasn’t sure a membership would get as much use this time since
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We had a lot of random things going on this week. Emma has western day at school. We had friends over for dinner and made homemade pizzas, including homemade fruit pizzas for dessert. I took Olivia to do an obstacle course at the library. Olivia thought that was the perfect
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