March transitioned from winter to spring, although it has felt more like summer here in San Diego. We welcomed Tim back from his work trip to Boston at the beginning of the month. Cordelia, Anthony, and Lydia transitioned to new sports activities. We celebrated Cordelia’s 12th birthday! Cordelia is now 12. We had a small

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Lots of fun and excitement during the month of February. This month the kids had a break week from school. Tim had work travel to Boston, so Alicia, Cordelia, and Anthony tagged along for the break week and did site seeing in Boston. We did walking around Plymouth, the Minuteman Battle Road, and took a

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The first month of 2026 has come to a close. It has certainly been a busy month with not much of an “easing back in” to the daily life. We’ve been making slow progress on getting our mini renovation of the upstairs hallway completed. Tim has been working overtime hours. We managed to squeeze in

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Happy New year to all. We’re excited to see what 2026 has in store for us. We had an eventful December with the kids’ various Christmas performances and parties. Sadly, we also had the sickness that Natalie picked up at the end of November pass through the rest of family. We had a fun visit

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November started off “routine” but there were lots of holiday festivities for the second half as we headed into Thanksgiving break. The gap in sports for Cordelia let to a much easier transition to soccer in the evenings. Natalie had two Thanksgiving events, Lydia had a class Pilgrim reenactment (she was Squanto!), and Anthony had

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October was pretty routine with the regular list of activities keeping us busy. The kids’ school had a special “Grandparent’s Day” at the beginning of the month, which was really fun. Cordelia is starting figure out how to handle the homework expectations and dealing with assignments being posted on the computer. She’s doing well in

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September has settled a little into the school routine but things remain busy. The kids are starting to figure out the new school routine. Overall we’ve been happy with how the school is functioning and supporting parent requests. AWANA also started this month, so we’re getting back into the routine of doing our nightly verse

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August rolled right by with summer chaos spilling into the beginning of the school year. It has been a very challenging and stressful summer with the workload feeling insurmountable and not a lot of relief in sight. The kids finished up their summer camps and then started at the new school in the middle of

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In July things kicked into overdrive and we had lots of overfilled weekends and late nights. We spent the 4th of July weekend with the Powers clan. We went to the Legoland Castle hotel for three nights. We spent the majority of the month managing the construction workers. It was a very painful month but

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Another busy month for the Russins West. We’ve transitioned from school to summer break. The kids finished the school year with their end of year presentations on different US states. We took a family trip to Sequoia National Park. Our first adventure in our old-new pop-up trailer went well. While we were up in central California

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