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You insert your quarter and pull the arm. Every third, tenth, hundredth time, you hit the jackpot. Your brain likes jackpot. You insert your quarter and pull the arm, insert quarter, pull arm… But the 4-year-old is easier to please. The question is, should you please him? Yesterday, I made the plan on my way . . . → Read More: having a 4-year-old is like playing the vegas slots Tonight’s prompt: What is the last thing you do before bed? Which is funny since I’m writing this blog post in bed. But it won’t be the last thing I do. The last thing will be to read some portion of the latest New Yorker currently sitting on my bedside table. I used to have . . . → Read More: what is the last thing you do before bed? The last day of our trip. How to spend it? In the morning, Jonah realized his dream, hatched the night before during the 4 hour drive home from Alamogordo, of creating a “model train” out of cardboard boxes and lengths of rubber band. We had to talk him out of bringing the whole thing home . . . → Read More: and then we came home What a day! Too tired to download and post photos. Or even explain in a detailed manner. Best shot: We slept in the trailer on Aunt Dorothy’s front driveway, woke up and played in said trailer for a while. Went to the Golden Corral all-you-can-eat breakfast (the offerings were astonishing, the floor was greasy, I . . . → Read More: too tired I will back date this post but I can hardly hold up the ruse as I’ve already written today’s post and as you have seen or will see, I am wringing this info out of one tired brain. Yesterday we caravan-ed to Great-Great Aunt Dorothy’s in Alamogordo, with the truck pulling the camping trailer which . . . → Read More: yesterday 
Today we continued our quest for food that is smothered in cheese and green chile. Did you know there is an official Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail? We ate at one of the official locations, the Magdalena Cafe. Yes, it is supposed to have American cheese on top. That is how it’s done! (See this . . . → Read More: the green chile odyssey continues 
This kid is cleaning up for his 4th birthday. We actually started before we left town. I picked up a water bottle at Whole Foods with space illustrations on it. (Nevermind that the illustrations are inaccurate: their version of Saturn has a rocky planet surrounded by rings and as EVERYONE knows—except the illustrator hired for . . . → Read More: jonah’s birthday rock(et)s So the first day, it was the chickens. I’d put the iPhone down, stepped away from my technology to improvise with Linda in her studio, which she built herself (with a little help). When the phone rang at the house during dinner, we ignored it, thinking it was a telemarketer. Finally, the second call made . . . → Read More: in which my housesitter earns a purple heart |
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