Much to our surprise and delight, Adam and I are spending the fourth of July in Mexico – an appropriate statement of the the level of our patriotism at the moment. Last week in San Jose we met up with Erin Dunigan who is a Princeton grad who was writing for the Presbyterian Outlook, which [...]

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I know I haven’t blogged much and for those of you who have missed it, I apologize. And, I don’t have any intention of blogging at the moment. I just want to put something in the public domain so it is on the record.
Date: October 25, 2007
Time: 10:19pm
Fact: My husband, Adam Walker Cleaveland, in listing [...]

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Well, after a busy summer of packing, moving, unpacking, adjusting, CPEing, working, and adjusting some more, we decided what better way to spend our two weeks of vacation than in a car driving across the country?? What could be better?
Clearly many things we discovered after the first of many 12 hour days, but we [...]

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Disclaimer: Normally if we go out in the course of a week, it’s to a movie, sometimes out to dinner. Generally we’re stay at home kind of people; perhaps not always by choice, but certainly by budget and workload…
Disclaimer #2: We do have a budget. We are generally good at sticking to it. We don’t [...]

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I know. It’s been awhile. It happens. I’m sure you all survived just fine without my blog for a little while.
Meanwhile, crazy things have been happening in the cleaker household (yes, cleaker is a combination of our last names AND our new nickname among some of our used-to-be-best-friends).

Adam has a small problem of laughing at [...]

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Seven months later and we’ve finally ordered our wedding photos. Oh the feeling of relief. Just in case you want to order some wedding photos (for yourself or us, either way), here’s the link. And, should you not feel inclined to order pictures, you should go look at the engagement gallery on their site anyway [...]

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Well, we survived our first married Christmas with lots of family and even more traveling. In the end, I think we’re both glad we have a few days to recover before class and work begin again. We’re going to have to work on this bi-coastal family experience in future for vacations, but that is too [...]

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In other words, not for everyone, not for me. Adam and I are realizing that our marriage does not enjoy conferences. Well, to be honest, I am realizing that our marriage does not enjoy conferences and Adam is only slowly coming to terms with this.
Adam loves conferences. He gets an amazing amount of energy from [...]

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We’ve gone crunchy in our household this semester. A class on ecological concerns sparked a growing interest in living "green" and a conversation with a nutritionist sparked a growing interest in eating healthy. Fortunately, these two paths converge in many places and so doing one often accomplishes the other. Like, buying local, organic food is [...]

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. . . or helping my husband win, depending on how you look at it.
I decided to teach Adam cribbage this weekend (which of course meant calling home for rules since I had forgotten myself). We like playing games and cribbage is a good one for two people, so I thought it would be fun. [...]

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