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...this is just a really quick post to declare my membership at minti.com, a sort-of myspace for parents, minus the sleaze and band whores. my profile is at sierraromeo.minti.com. i admit i am totally a joiner. friendster, myspace, flickr, now minti.

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...so yesterday, i took the afternoon off from work. ted and cadence picked me up in lake forest and we drove 15 miles to campbell airport in grayslake, where ted's parents met us in their plane. ted's dad is an avid pilot and has been wanting to take c

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...early saturday morning, soon after ted had left for work, i heard a loud *THUD* that made my heart sink down to my stomach. i ran into the bedroom, and sure enough, cadence had literally rolled all the way across from the middle of our giant full-size

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...so as i was saying, we went to the volo auto museum last weekend. my main reason for going out thataways was because the fall foliage is so much prettier up north near where i work. we drove down the long and winding and picturesque Sheridan road alo

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...ugh. i've got one word for ya. MIGRAINE. let me add a few more: SUCKS. MAJORLY. OUCH. let me just finish with a little story about that photo. we went to the volo auto museum for a family outing on saturday. much to our surprise, there was ted's d

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...no, i'm not referring to my crazy relatives here in the states. i'm talking about the insane posse to the north of my motherland, the north koreans. it so happens that my paternal grandmother was from north korea and moved to the south to study. she

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...and it seems to indicate a lot of cute sweet boys vying for cadence''s attention. this is cadence''s little buddy at church, rudden. he''s just a couple months older, and you should see the two of them chasing each other and squealing with mutual deligh

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...cuz you can''t get enough of a toddler named CADENCE playing the drums! ok, it''s really a practice pad...but our downstairs neighbor is on vacation, and ted''s setting up the kit today! we''ll have to get some footage of the little one on a REAL drumse

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a really long time ago, while we were still living in Ravenswood, someone stole the faceplate off our car CD player. i realize that it’s stupid to have a detachable faceplate if you’re not going to actually detach it, especially if you a) live in chicago