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Breakfast at lou’s

By KJ / Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Breakfast at lou’s Originally uploaded by kjda. This was our reward for a morning of shoveling snow. School was delayed…but they were late anyway!

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The cross country ski “polar bears”

By KJ / Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The cross country ski "polar bears" Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Lily in the snow

By KJ / Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Lily in the snow Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Wyatt in the snow

By KJ / Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Wyatt in the snow Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Who Said I Didn’t Want to Raise a Quitter?

By KJ / Sunday, February 24, 2008

This weekend’s highlight: a visit from one of my oldest school friends and her family (featuring “Boston Joey”, so-called to distinguish him from one of their best friends and sometimes even directly addressed as such). Boston Joey has done some skiing; his five-year-old sister “Roofie” has not. So as my friend took a year off the limited life span of her lower back by taking Roofie up the J-bar and Lily decided she wanted to hit the chair lift, I […]

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Lily is the baby and Wyatt is the mom!

By KJ / Monday, February 11, 2008

Lily is the baby and Wyatt is the mom! Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Lily’s first gallery show

By KJ / Monday, January 28, 2008

Lily’s first gallery show Originally uploaded by kjda. At the library. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Lily on the lift

By KJ / Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Lily on the lift Originally uploaded by kjda. Lily rode the j bar all by herself All day ( and didn’t want to stop!) KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Buy Nothing Month(s)

By KJ / Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I am not buying anything in January and February except books, food and toilet paper (which really represents the entire category of non-food essentials from toothpaste on but is limited to disposable items one actually does run out of and need. Therefore, lip gloss–which I am unlikely to run out of for several years–would be a no.) Rob’s response was a mystified “Why?” Somebody else asked me to expand on the rules, and when I say “I”, does that include […]

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I Just Grasped the Caucus System (and I don’t like it)

By KJ / Thursday, January 3, 2008

I am having a moment of sudden understanding–and thus sudden anger–about the Iowa caucus. How can this be the way we want things done? Here’s my problem with the caucus system: What if everyone in Iowa wanted to participate? I know, that’s crazy, but let’s just say they did. Not possible. What if you’re on dialysis? How many 17-year-old babysitters are there to go around? Who will man the 911 system, the emergency room, the quickie mart. What if you’re […]

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Happy New Year!

By KJ / Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New Year! Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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At the Detroit airport

By KJ / Thursday, December 27, 2007

At the Detroit airport Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’AntoniaI just want to say that Lily has a matching sweater too, but she took it off because she got hot. (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Lily eats ice cream

By KJ / Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Lily eats ice cream Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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On the T

By KJ / Friday, December 14, 2007

On the T Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Sam in NYC

By KJ / Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Sam in NYC Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Putting my skates on…

By KJ / Sunday, December 2, 2007

Rob is out of town for half the week, so it’s pretty much a race with decent SAG stops for me. Get up! Get dressed! Get your coat on ! Get your boots on! Where’s your lunch? Why aren’t your boots on? Let’s go! [interval of school and babysitter and work] get in the car! We’ve got to go get someone else! Got to drop them off! Got to get home! Run! And this is just my inner monologue….

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Haircuts!

By KJ / Friday, November 30, 2007

Haircuts! Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

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Now I am Dangerously Cheesy

By KJ / Friday, November 9, 2007

Now I am Dangerously Cheesy Originally uploaded by kjda. Comic created with Comic Life from plasq – http://plasq.com

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In the leaves

By KJ / Wednesday, October 31, 2007

In the leaves Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

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On Halloween

By KJ / Wednesday, October 31, 2007

On Halloween Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

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