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One of my strengths is that I never give up.  I always see the good in everything.  I know that sometimes I let it all get me down.  But, I immediately work on turning it all around.
I have decided that I will be a teacher in Florida.  No matter what I want to teach.  I [...]

We mailed out all the paperwork for Vilay’s greencard and work authorization. It should arrive at the lockbox of the immigration service department sometime within the next few days. It is such a relief to have it out of our hands. We can only wait now.
The second announcement is I have a [...]

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We took the kids to a park the other day. It is a park that Vilay has always liked and I have never really found so wonderful. I’ll get to why in a bit. We let the kids run and jump and play on the play equipment for about an hour. [...]

I have been busy filling out forms and copying documents for Vilay to get the greencard. I will say that while in France it is not always easy to get the 10 year card…it doesn’t require quite so many forms or dollars. It is going to cost us a little under one thousand [...]

On September 14th, 2005 Pumpkin Pie began typing out into the emptiness of internet land.  Or so she thought.  Within a few weeks Pumpkin got a few comments on her posts.  She was surprised that people found her words and actually talked back.  She was delighted.  Pumpkin was lonely for English.  She was homesick for [...]

Coretta Scott King sums up why I enjoyed getting my teacher certification at Antioch University’s McGregor School. It is, also, one of the reasons that I like Yellow Springs. People in Yellow Springs aren’t afraid to question or think outside of the box. The people that live in Yellow Springs are open [...]

We. officially. have. a. car. It has made our life so much easier and I am now able to actively job hunt.
This past weekend we flew into Daytona Beach to pick up the car from my uncle’s house and drive it back to Ohio. Unfortunately, we got lost on the way back. [...]

The day after arriving back in America after over 2 years, Sweet Bear started “baby talking” while speaking French. It got worse and worse as the week went on. She even started talking to her father in English. He would just say what she had said again but in French. He [...]

The other night I was talking with my mother’s neighbor who is a woman about the same age as me and she has four children like I do. We were talking about how each birth was different and about the care that we received at the hospitals where we delivered.
I had to hold my [...]