The Ma Family

GIRL!
Rylee is going to have a little sister in February.

Bill and I are pretty excited.  We realize we should probably start saving for proms and weddings now though.  We hope the bathroom they will share will be big enough for two girls to get ready for school at the same time.
I don’t have a sister [...]

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Here is a photo of the front of our house when we moved in just over a month ago.  When we looked at the house we knew that many of the shrubs out front would have to go.  There really were entirely too many of them and they were all big.
Fortunately we have a landscaper [...]

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The most requested of all of my recipes. I’ve already made it twice for Penn State Saturdays at our house this season, so here it is.
There are two primary varieties of jambalaya. Creole jambalaya, also known as red jambalaya, is tomato based. Cajun jambalaya, my preferred variety, is not tomato based.
Ingredients:

2 lbs mild smoked pork [...]

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and Squirt is as big as a mango….

Vernix caseosa, a greasy white substance made of lanugo, oil and dead skin cells (yum) now coats Squirt’s skin, shielding it from the amniotic fluid. (Picture yourself after a nine-month bath, and the need for protection makes sense.) We might actually get to see the vernix at birth, especially [...]

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and Squirt is as big as a sweet potato…
Squirt has become amazingly mobile (at least compared to me), passing the hours yawning, hiccuping, rolling, twisting, kicking, punching, sucking and swallowing. And, Squirt is finally big enough that I’ll be able to feel those movements soon.

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