Faye, David and Liam's Story

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  • Liam’s Big Turn

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    (his 13th birthday!) Time’s been doing what it does best and amidst all the rest of what life’s brought us, Liam is on the cusp of his teenage years. This feels like a big deal to me – completing the first year of his second 12 year cycle, the end of childhood and the slow…

  • National Lampoon’s Cross Country Move (without any death or raunch)

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    Late November – 2023It was the encouragement of Tina, Leo’s mom, who got me started. She said something along the lines of, post about your trip on IG. It turned into something of a lifeline. Driving across Turtle Island can be dull and monotonous. With the circumstances of our move, it was also full of…

  • Time to Go….

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    This post will be brief because there’s a lot to do – in the span of the next 3 months, we will wrap up our California life and make our way to Michigan to begin again.   While we’ve considered life beyond the bay from time to time (most people do because living here is…

  • Boys get Easier, or so they say

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    This morning I found myself in the now familiar diaper changing struggle.  To his credit, Liam is not one to take things lying down.  Hopefully he will hold on to this tendency and exhibit it when it’s actually appropriate.  As far as diaper changes go though, my writing this entry serves as my admission that…

  • It’s All Fun and Games…

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    Liam is enjoying peek-a-boo these days.  My extra set of hands, Shalin, has been playing it with him during the day and David’s been taking up the task in the evenings. He’s also experimenting with cause and effect, known in some circles as “drop it and some girl will pick it up”.  That’s usually played…

  • Our Little Firecracker

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    Liam ushers us into the year of the dragon Life is pretty busy for us these days so this will be a short entry.  While David and I are hustling to keep one step ahead of Liam, the house clean, money in the bank, and generally on top of our new roles as parents; Liam…

  • The Locomotion Log

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    Waiting with bated breath Saturday 12/17 David toils all day to get our big television monitor up on the wall.  Then he sets up the new entertainment cabinet.  Then he puts everything in it and gets it working again.  Liam is on the move and loving it.  He’s been doing a lot of push ups…

  • Santa Claus has a new fan

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    Sorry, I just noticed that we didn’t manage to get this posted despite our best efforts. I’ve always known that Christmas is most fun in the company of little ones and now I have a special insight into why.  Christmas eve marks the end of Liam’s sixth month with us and we had a lot…

  • Parenting: the art of cultivation

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    If you’ve been to our home you may have seen the following words from Goethe: “Love does not dominate, it cultivates” A while ago, that saying struck me as rich with meaning and opportunity for consideration.  Looking back, I probably framed it because I didn’t really know what it meant and yet it seemed like…

  • Show us how it’s done, Liam

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    Our young babe seems to be quite an expert at living.  He’s a great baby.  A perfect combination of get up and go and go with the flow.  So far our days have been a good balance of give and take and I think with a few exceptions, we’re all having a pretty good time…

  • 7 weeks and 1 day

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    It’s been a while since we posted and we’ve had some gentle reminders from the ever eager new friends of Liam.  David is back to work and so his computer time is almost completely dedicated to work related endeavors.  He continues to be a great dad.  As I write this father and son are cuddled…

  • The imminent arrival of Baby ST

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    Being a stickler for finishing one big project before starting another has kept me from posting information about the current Stevenson Twist family adventure:  our eager anticipation of meeting our first child.  I hope that we did a pretty thorough job of spreading the word that we are indeed expecting a little miracle soon, but…

  • Our Michigan Celebration

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    Our wedding celebration would not be complete without some time in my home state.  Even though I’ve been away a long time, it has been really great for me to get back in touch with so many loved ones from my formative years.  I’m grateful that I took full advantage of this rite of passage…

  • Trees are Good Medicine

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    Our May Day Park day was David’s “pet” event.  My husband loves tree time.  Especially when the trees are redwoods.  In fact we just had our second annual May Day Park Day and it was great. We had to get to the park by 10a to hold our space even though we paid for it. …

  • We Had a Ball!

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    Aside from our wedding day which was obviously the most important day of the week, David and I each had our “pet” events.  The ball was mine.    I figure that it will take at least a few years of throwing balls before I get it down to a science.  According to many, our first attempt…

  • Full Moon in Scorpio, Mercury in Retrograde

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    I already explained how April 28, 2010 came to be our wedding day.  Laura reminded me after the fact that the moon was in scorpio (my sign) and that mercury was in retrograde.  For the little bit of arcane knowledge that I have, the day seemed to conform to any expectations that those factors would…

  • A Well-Packed Day

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    I was really looking forward to Tuesday’s activities because as most people who know me realize, I am a crafter at heart. In the year planning our wedding it’s been a bit of a struggle for me because if I had my druthers, I would have been the person to decorate each table for our…

  • San Francisco Fun

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    San Francisco delivered excellent weather for our walking tour.  Monday was a gorgeous sunny day, which was fortunate because had it been dreary I would have been really miserable.  As it was I was under-dressed, due to not thinking ahead enough to follow our own directions about what to wear.  We had the lovely surprise…

  • Down Home in Oakland

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    We started our day off just right with a bite on Lakeshore avenue and a redwood hike that David had scoped out in advance. Trees are good medicine and I think that every person enjoyed our tree time. The kids were a constant source of entertainment as they maintained a spirit of inquiry for the…

  • Marin County’s Perfection

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    With another big push on Friday, we were ready to go. Alexa had arrived midday on Friday and she was ready and willing to go to work. David was busy getting our canopy frame set up and completing his other projects. We were counting the minutes that we had to get everything done and anxiously…