five days will see the janaszek/hemphill clan on the road to denver. that’s right, i said denver…colorado. twenty-four hours of driving bliss or hell. only five days remaining until we find out which one it will be for us. i’m on the fence right now–half of me (mostly my brain) says it’s going to be […]

Posted on August 28th, 2006 by jkh
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today seb had a pretend conversation on his “play” cell phone, an old phone that is swankier than any real phone brian or i will ever have, with his dja-dja: “oh, hi!…how are you?… oh, you went swimming? did you have a good day today?… well, can you come over?… oh, you can’t… oh, cause […]

Posted on July 16th, 2006 by jkh
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my kids haven’t been inspiring me to write lately, about them or anything else really. it’s not that they aren’t doing anything. they are. seb continues on his extremely slow journey towards being completely potty-trained, and oren is rolling, rocking, playing with his toes (which is very cute, i must say), and eating some solid […]

Posted on June 28th, 2006 by jkh
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this is fun to do… oren at 5+ mos sebastien at 5+ mos

Posted on June 11th, 2006 by admin
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we’ve had quite a week, here, in the janaszek/hemphill home. a week i don’t ever want a repeat of, ideally. this week was seb’s first week of potty training. on friday, may 5, brian and i endeavored to do it in the course of one day, following the rigorous methods of toilet training in less […]

Posted on May 15th, 2006 by jkh
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this word, education, is a scary word for me. it carries with it baggage from my own shoddy schooling, primary and secondary, and loads of noise when i start thinking about it for my kids. when i think about education, i remember liking it until i hit high school, but not at all afterwards. perhaps […]

Posted on April 27th, 2006 by jkh
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i’m having one of those days that makes up for all the horrible other days–last week, last month, the month before that… i was just pondering this as i lounged on the couch in my living room casually reading a book. it’s about 70 degrees outside, and even though i need to be close while […]

Posted on March 30th, 2006 by admin
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combination of complain and blog: when all a blogger does is complain. “Don’t go to anklebiter.net, all they do is complog!” (i’m stealing this idea of making up a new word from the magazine, Brain, Child. in the most recent issue, they have a couple of pages devoted to new words like this that other […]

Posted on February 28th, 2006 by jkh
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as we approach what we normally think of as springtime here in the northeast, the weather is becoming more and more like winter. what’s the deal? i guess this isn’t a new trend. it happened like this last year too. at least the days are getting longer, although the sun actually needs to be out […]

Posted on February 28th, 2006 by jkh
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brian forwarded me this link to our friend doug’s blog about how his two-year old boy isn’t talking yet. reading it encouraged me to look back to this time last year here on our site to see where we were with seb’s own lack of talking. (you can do the same by clicking on months […]

Posted on February 5th, 2006 by jkh
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