The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

By Jill Davis Doughtie

We’re plotting something.

I told you we were bad women.

Yep.

(Photos by G.) (But we’re not flipping him off. We’re just being Kumbaya rebels.)
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By Jill Davis Doughtie

Photos by G.
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By Jill Davis Doughtie

Here we are prepping for our singing-Kumbaya-while-braiding-each-other’s-hair photo shoot.
Actually, we were preparing for a cat’s cradle photoshoot — G’s mom is an artist, and she wanted a few pictures of us playing cat’s cradle together to possibly use for a painting she was thinking about. After the cat’s cradle pictures, we took [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie

Photo by G.
See, we really do sit around braiding each other’s hair and singing Kumbaya. It’s challenging with those flowers in our teeth, but we wouldn’t let a little thing like that stop us.
Actually we had relatives and guests who were willing to help us live out our fantasy of a Kumbaya [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie

Here I am taking a picture of my niece’s pet cutworm. (Photo by G.)
In my family, we grew up fascinated with — and playing with — bugs. My niece and oldest nephew seem to have inherited the Davis love of bugs. (It’s too soon to tell with the youngest nephew.) It didn’t [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie

This was definitely Chris’s work.

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By Jill Davis Doughtie
One day, I looked into a hedge and saw this:

“Oh! That’s Max Steel,” said Chris.
I brought him inside and set him on the dining room table.

Later, I came back and found that he had made himself more comfortable in the living room.

G admitted to this:

And this:

But I’m still not sure who did [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie

For year or so after I first moved in with G and the boys, funny little scenes like this would appear when I wasn’t looking. I think Chris set most of them.
In this picture, we were having a garage sale. As we brought stuff out from the back we made a “wait, [...]

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This kid has style.
(Blogged with Chris’s permission.)

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A little over a year ago, G and I bought ourselves World of Warcraft for Christmas. The kids were playing it, G wanted to play with them, and I wanted to get to know them better.
So I installed World of Warcraft, created a character and plunged in. At first, I couldn’t understand what I was [...]

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