Category: family
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Our Housing Nightmare: Coming Soon
Kristen and I have doozy of a story to tell. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you call your congressmen. It will make you sell your stock in banks. Most importantly, it will show you the difference between media hype about the housing market and Main Street realities.…
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Eight years of parenting
Megan and daddy making the eye contact that could last a lifetime Paul in a quiet moment right after birth. It’s hard to believe that Kristen and I have been parents for nearly 8 years. It’s weird how a picture captures a moment. I can think back to exactly what I was thinking at this…
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The Shamu Show
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Megan’s Hip Hop Performance
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San Diego Zoo Pics
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The move is done!
Today was the last day of our lease at the old place. We really only had two items left that had to be retrieved. We had the base of our yard swing. Kristen loves this thing so I knew we had to get it taken care of right away. And we had our old car.…
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The McLane Stimulus Plan
Since it’s clear the Obama Administration is going to be giving 100% of the stimulus money to failed companies like GM and AIG and nothing in cash to the middle class, Kristen and I had to make our own bail out plan. (Sorry for the dig on Obama, I was a big fan of Bush’s…
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Behold, the Faux Hawk!
It’s kind of crazy but my kindergartner wants to be the cool kid in his class. A big part of that has been a fascination with having cool hair. (We do live in Southern California, you know.) For the last few weeks Paul didn’t want to go to school because “the kids won’t like me.”…
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We’re Moving
Big fun for the McLane family! In a couple of hours I will drop off the deposit on a new rental house. When we moved here in August we knew that the house we landed in was too small. Coming into it we only had a few days to find a place when we visited…