We’ve survived our first January in Minnesota. The driveway is an ice slick. The baby has a space heater. There were some days early in the month where it was snot-freezing, eye-ball icing, car engine-whining, thermostat-busting cold. The house isn’t too drafty but you can’t put Eleanor on the carpet to play until the place [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Northfield'
We Always Cheer for Faribault
January 19th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Minnesota, Northfield
Once the baby goes to sleep, Daniel and I like to make the most of our evenings. Sometimes we read the Sunday paper on Wednesday. Other times, we make soup or instant Jell-O pudding. When we’re feeling really wild and crazy, we see what’s on C-SPAN or a local cable access channel whose programming consists [...]
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Home
December 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · EDG, Northfield
Alright people, I’m about to get all circle-of-life on your asses. Check it:
A few weeks ago, I found myself feeling particularly relaxed and perhaps even a touch giddy. I surveyed the obvious reasons — Christmas was on its way; I was a couple weeks into my five week break between terms; the new Eleanor had [...]
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Christmastime
December 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · EDG, Northfield, Uncategorized
I have been preparing for Christmas and reveling in my last 2 weeks of housewifery by being absurdly crafty (in the Martha Stewart sense, not the tricky, underhanded sense (as much as that surprises me)). I made Christmas stockings for Belly, Ellie and my mother. I knitted Ellie a hat using 2 different skeins of [...]
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It’s Cold Here
December 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · EDG, Northfield
When we told people we were moving to Minnesota, their first impulse was to quote from Fargo. Their second impulse was to make some pronouncement about how cold it is in the winter. If they were wrong about Fargo (that’s North Dakota, not Minnesota), they were right about the weather. It’s cold here. Already, we’ve [...]
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Sons of Norway
December 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments · EDG, Northfield
A couple weeks ago, Emily excitedly told me that St. John’s Church, on the other side of town, was having a community Norwegian breakfast and we had to go. Um, ok. I like breakfast. I’m not opposed to churches. Well maybe I am. But I like breakfast more than I dislike churches, so I agreed. [...]
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Updates
November 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · EDG, House, Northfield
Hi all. Sorry we’ve been slow on the blog front. Nothing worthy of a dedicated blog post has happened recently, so this is merely an update post.
1) Ellie is a getting a lot more hair. That’s her sitting in a Bumpo, courtesy of Aimee and Ives. Thanks guys (she loves it)!
2) We took advantage of [...]
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October 28th, 2009 · 6 Comments · EDG, Northfield
Everything You’ve Read Is True
I can’t believe I am finally here, in fabled Northfield of Family *roll fame. It’s like getting to go to Disneyland, and almost as improbably picture-perfect. At this moment, Northfield’s wide, tree-lined streets are paved with gold — piles of fallen leaves. (Emily and Daniel [...]
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Have a pig stuck in your chimney? We know who to call
October 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Northfield
We joined a group of friends last night to go to the Cooreman/Lindenfelser Halloween Bash at Northfield Grand Event Center. The Event Center is a defunct theater that is rented out for occasions, weddings for the most part. But once a year Cooreman and Lindenfelser (two Northfielders we are told) rent the space for a [...]
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Wilderness Park
October 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Northfield
On Sunday we went for a walk in our local county park, which is romantically named “Wilderness Park“. It’s a heartbreakingly beautiful park filled with winding trails, steep ravines, grassy glades, tree-covered cliffs and the twisty Cannon River which is the river that bisects Northfield. In Chicago we occasionally went orienteering or biking in the [...]
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