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go to www.google.com
click on “maps”
click on “get directions”
type “New York” in the first box (the “from” box)
type “London” in the second box (the “to” box) – click ‘get directions’
scroll down to step #23

I got an email from Nicky’s orphanage the other day.  What an insanely small world we live in.
I don’t like hitting up my friends and coworkers for too much in the way of translation services on an ongoing basis (though, I’ve used many of them intermittently), but regular communications with Nicky’s orphanage could cost me […]

I’ve budgeted a certain amount for dining out a month.
I can’t do it, though.  I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that we will eat out and/or take in at least twice a week and budget be damned.  ‘Cause it really doesn’t matter to me what the budget says if there is money […]

We got a lot of rain the other day and the kids started talking about whether or not another tree would fall down.  We have a beautiful cherry tree that fell down last fall.  It even appears to have survived the winter — I figured it’d die with the roots exposed.  It has always leaned […]

That would be Noelle.
She’s wearing underwear to bed and I got frustrated enough trying to smush her into her carseat today that we went and bought her a booster seat.