Scooter Chronicles

Over the course of the next few days Marcia, Nigel, and I will be at my Mother-in-law’s place. We figured it was easier with all the Christmas festivities and preparation happening. And since her source of the internet super-highway comes from an old laptop that is very slow and dial-up service, plus with having a child to attend to, I am not sure I will have much time to “blog” over the next couple of days.

So I wanted to take the time now to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, or at least a Happy Holidays, depending on your beliefs. May...

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My brother Brian made a wise comment on a post of mine where I said that it seemed Nigel had enough clothes to get him through until he grew into larger sizes. Brian’s comment was that I don’t realize just how often you may change a baby’s clothes for whatever reason. I learned this first hand two nights ago when Nigel went through four sleepers in about 20 minutes. He kept spitting up before we could get a bib on him. Though one of those times a bib wouldn’t have helped much. I had to change my shirt and pants too on that one.

Marcia and I are now learning to let Nigel cry when we put him down to sleep. He has to learn too that it’s time for bed and we can’t always hold him. Quite honestly...

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Another album review. This is the other CD that I got as a Christmas present from my Mom and Dad.

Tracks:

1. H̼ Hviss РA Ship
2. Weeping Rock, Rock
3. Nightly Cares
4. The Ghosts You Draw on My Back
5. Stir
6. Sing Me Out the Window
7. The Islands of the Children’s Children
8. Away
9. Oh, How the Boat Drifts
10. Small Deaths are the Saddest
11. Will the Summer Make Good for All of Our Sins?
12. Abandoned Ship Bells

First and foremost, I finally came across...

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Saw this ARTICLE on the Detroit Free Press web site this morning. It is about a family in the Detroit area that still follows the Polish traditions of Wiligia on Christmas Eve. This year in fact will be their 100th celebration. It was very interesting for me being Polish, since I didn’t know about these traditions. I wasn’t surprise that there were certain traditions, as I know many cultures have their own. I just wasn’t aware of them. Our biggest tradition on Christmas was the nickel-dime-quarter family poker game after dessert. And now that I know about these, I still would have no plans on following them. Though most...

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