Eclectic Parent

We headed into New York to go the American Museum of Natural History. For the first few years of their lives it was known as the dinosaur museum and we never saw anything else. They’ve finally got to the point where we can see other areas of the museum. We brought our three and two […]

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It took us a few days of swimming and playing before we could get the kids out of the house. We took our three and two of their cousins to the Maritime Aquarium on Friday. The have a special exhibit right now with a white alligator. There are only 44 albino alligators out of the […]

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We’re here. We made it. Think big house, more cousins than a small village, some of them having friends over, aunts, uncles, swimming pool, capture the flag, and scavenger hunts. Swim, swim, swim from breakfast ’til bed with breaks in between to play. We’ve been so busy we haven’t posted.
The first few days were spent […]

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It is getting harder and harder to get going in the morning. The kids just want to stay in the room and watch TV. DC is the last stop on our trip. Mommy and Daddy wanted to do 2 days, but we only got to do one. Daddy got up […]

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Day two with Mike and Erin. After we pried the boys away from the video games, Mike took us for a little hike with his daughter and dog. It was an easy hike through the Eno River State Park. At first the kids seemed reluctant to go on another walk. […]

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Rather than driving north to Durham our friends decided to drive down at meet us. We swam a little this morning at our hotel and then met our friend’s Mike and Erin, and their daughter, at the North Carolina Zoological Park. We had a good time wandering the zoo, but we were late meeting our […]

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Leaving Gainesville was interesting. At a gas station stop I asked about the closest bookstore, I got a blank stare followed by, “uuh, Walmart?” Good think we had a large selection with us. We drove past sings for boiled peanuts, kept meaning to stop and get some but never did, and Georgia peaches.
We stopped […]

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We drove out to the Alachua Sink Hole and Payne’s Prairie. Daddy and the kids road bikes (B is in love with the font carrier we got the night before our trip) and Holly and I walked with her children. I wish I had a video; a good author would be able to take a […]

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I think of Florida as beaches, Cuban influence, and beaches. We headed north to Gainsville to see our friend Holly. Gainsville - to me - is more the south than Florida. Spanish moss hanging heavily from trees, air you can feel, I kept expecting to see rocking chairs on porches as we drove through. Holly’s […]

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We are still in Clearwater playing with our cousins. I thought we might go to the beach today but there was no way I could drag the kids out of the pool. They were having way too much fun just jumping in and out of the water. Everyone is going to […]

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