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The Beach House

We used to love going to the lake house.  But the lake lacks something these days. The wooden posts you see on the lower right are part of the bulkhead.  Normally, those would be standing in 3 to 4 feet of water.  As you can see in  the photo, that is no longer the case.  So…this [...]

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Head, Meet Table.

The problem with cute cartoon Band-Aids is that the kids refuse to take them off.  We hope it isn’t a permanent scar.

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Like a Big Girl

We decided to spend our Labor Day weekend cleaning our floors.  Not that the floors were dirty, but this was the weekend we had set aside to begin potty training.  There have been a few successes, which were accompanied by a few celebratory cupcakes.  Mostly, however, it has been a few days of cleaning up [...]

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Another Coate Baby

Congratulations to my brother, Patrick, and his wife, Elinore, on the birth of their beautiful baby girl.

Smooches

Lucy has learned that the best way to make a boo boo feel better is to have Mommy kiss it.  Tonight, she had to live with disappointment as her most noteworthy injuries were biting her tongue and falling on her bottom.  Imagine Katie trying to explain twice why Momma is not going to kiss that [...]

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