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    ‘Tis the Season!

    Ah, ’tis the season of holidays! With a new baby around, I forgot that I like to start thinking about Halloween in the summer, so I have plenty of time to think about Thanksgiving and Christmas before they sneak up on me. 
    Halloween seems pretty under control. I talked to the two other families I have met in the neighborhood, and they were excited about the idea of a block party Halloween bash. They are going to invite some folks, and I found two other families off the neighborhood list-serv to invite. We’ll just set up a folding table in the cul-de-sac for pizza. I purchased these glow stick bracelets
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    How to Revive Trick-or-Treating in a Neighborhood

    I’ve been trying to decide what to do for Halloween. I posted on our neighborhood list-serv to get a sense of what our neighborhood is like, and it sounds like it’s a lot of dark houses and not a lot of trick-or-treaters. 

    My first inclination was to schlep our family to the Mueller development. It’s a high-density, primarily affluent neighborhood in East Austin. Apparently families from all over our side of town flock there for the bountiful candy. I thought the close proximity of houses would be easier on a toddler.
    But then I thought about one of the comments on the list-serv a little more:
    We had one caller
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    Inch by Inch, Row by Row: Front-Yard Garden

    I’ve written this post so many different ways in my mind over the past week as I’ve debated whether or not to move forward with a front-yard garden. 
    In one version of the post, I was going to write all about how we have to be honest with ourselves about who we are and what our preferences are–no matter what other people say/think and no matter what we tell ourselves in our own romantic stories about who we want to be. 
    Ever since I started this blog in 2006(?) I’ve wanted to garden at home. We went to great efforts to make this dream a reality when we lived in
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