Category Archives: Family

Family-related anecdotes, visits, events, or topics.

We survived a major traffic accident

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Joel

[Note: I’m not going into all the sordid details of the accident itself, as I’ve got a open claim with my insurance agent, and am awaiting the final police report. I’m sticking to the simple facts.] On Monday night, the … Continue reading →

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Why do kids sleep so strangely?

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Joel

Based on our parenting experiences raising both a boy and a girl, I have many witty observations to share.  I’m not going to share them all with you now, because really, I need to save some material for boring dinner … Continue reading →

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Adam & Eve on a raft & wreck ’em!

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Joel

Kids being kids, they love to pretend to be superheroes or Vikings or anything fantastical you can imagine. Oddly enough, they also love to pretend to do mundane adult things like cooking and going to the DMV to renew their … Continue reading →

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Virginia is for…. baptisms and traffic

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Joel

Saturday night, we returned from a whirlwind trip to Virginia.  Num’s friend Barb and her husband John welcomed their first child Jack earlier this year.  Months later, time for a baptism.  On account that we haven’t visited them in a … Continue reading →

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Hawppy Thangsgiving 2009

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Joel

What a glorious Thanksgiving. A four-day weekend to eat, play, and relax. Best of all? No long drives from one far off destination to another. For the first Thanksgiving in a few years, we opted to spend it at home. My wife … Continue reading →

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Josh is now a Star Wars fan

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Joel

It’s like a dream come true. Joshua is, I think, officially a Star Wars fan. He’s only 4.5 years old, but I think I can get continue my corruption, er, I mean, nurture his budding love for geekiness.  We’ve been watching … Continue reading →

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Halloween 2009

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Joel

One busy Halloween.  I spent most of the previous night up  uploading photos and trying to get my Adobe Premiere Elements software to recognize my camcorder (“Y’all better recognize!”), which hasn’t worked in a long while.  Still not luck today, … Continue reading →

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Halloween Parade & Friday Nite Out

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Joel

I worked from home Friday, as we were expecting multiple critical packages in the mail today, as well as the kids’ annual Halloween Parade. You send the kids’ costumes in the morning to the daycare center, and the kids dress up … Continue reading →

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Celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary in Atlantic City

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Joel

This year, we Ipes were celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary.  What to do, what to do? After much soul-searching, researching in dusty European libraries, and verifying our hypotheses through frightening lab experiments that no man should do, we decided on spending … Continue reading →

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Joel & Josh visit NYC

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Joel

I finally scheduled a day off, and take Joshua to the city.  I had been promising to take him to the city for the entire spring and summer, but the schedules finally worked.  At the moment, I’m leading an audit, but … Continue reading →

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