I had a much bigger post here, but I accidentally closed the silly browser window last night and lost it all! Grrrr.....

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Knock, knock...is anyone home? There sure are some nice cobwebs on this here blog. It turns out that with two people working full time (one of them pregnant), a 20 year old house and a small child, the blog is not at the top of the priority list, for some reason! However, life has progressed.

Elise is walking like a champ now, and hardly ever crawls any more. She has...

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I just got a new pair of scissors and I can't open the package without scissors. Is it just me...?

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So our regular blog readers should have figured out by now that we are expecting another fiend (oops, I mean blessed child). The due date is April 1. The pregnancy is all around a bit of a cosmic joke on us, I mean, just check out the due date. C'mon! This is a classic case of "If you want to hear God laugh, make a plan." We wanted our children (if we decided to have more than one) to be three years apart. They will be 19 months.

They say every pregnancy is different. I'll...

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Now that Elise and I have survived our first year together, we have some very important thank yous to say.

Grandma and Grandpa Dalzell have been an absolute godsend. Starting when Elise was only 6 weeks old, Mavis would come up for a couple of hours once a week so I could go to the gym or do whatever to take break. They babysit regularly. Mavis brings us food to put in the freezer. Colin has spearheaded many construction projects in our house, the most recent being converting our...

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