The Pinke Post

When you have kids a decade a part in age, you quickly forget all of the little joys toddlers find in the simplest of things. Most recently one of these joys for Elizabeth is picking raisins out of raisin bread. Raisins removed and eaten first, then the bread can be eaten, plain. Officially the cheesy smile has happened. She even…
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We have some serious spring fever around our home. As you can see above, Hunter is COLD this morning. This weekend Hunter took a shovel to the basketball court at the park, cleared the slush, only fell in the nearby water once and spent hours on Saturday and Sunday shooting baskets. Rather than temperatures warming up…which the cold temps are…
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I was chopping onion to make my mom’s Red River Reuben Roll recipe the other night. And as some of you would know, onions make my cry. Sob actually. My dear sister in law a couple years ago found me the perfect gift. Pink ONION GOGGLES. Indeed I wear them often. Elissa was having a messy snack of peaches and…
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This morning I am glued to the radio, receiving Twitter messages from friends and co-workers on my phone and checking my email for messages from a couple friends. We are not in Fargo. We are far away from the raging Red River. But the memories of the 1997 Red River flood in Grand Forks that forever impacted our family is…
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