If I had posted this in the “Things I Have Learned” category I would tell you first and foremost that it is not advisable to travel to New York City in what is likely to be the still freezing month of March.  If you must though, I have to warn against taking four young children [...]

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I’m swamped.
I’ve neglected my blog reading.   
And responding to my comments. 
And now I’m just stopping in to tell you that I’m neglecting tonight’s post as well.
I feel as though I’m engaged in a quiet combat with the school.  One that has left me drained and saddened. 
And I’m busily preparing for a certain trip to Disney World.  [...]

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I am SO annoyed with Cassidy’s school right now.
I already told you about the para incident. 
Now today they called me and asked that I pick her up from school two hours after having dropped her off.
Why you ask?
Because one of her eyes was red and swollen and they assumed she had pink eye.
I told them [...]

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*****Updated to announce that Kari from Karis Ramblings is the winner of the Table Topics cube*****
We used to go to family reunions when I was a kid.  I don’t remember too terribly much about them other than hugs from perfect strangers and cheek pinching from old ladies who wore entirely too much rose-scented perfume.  There was [...]

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When I was a kid, I was one of those who would hoard all of my Halloween candy until, like, Fourth of July.  I’d eat one or two pieces a day until all I had left were those nasty peanut butter taffy things and peppermints.  I’ve never been a fan of peppermints.  I even bought an old book [...]

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Here she was before…

And here she is now…

Those metal brackets on her teeth are actually quite becoming don’t ya think?  And for the record, yes: that hair in her eyes drives me batty!

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- Quick!  I need help coming up with themed costume ideas for our visit to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party at Disney World next month.  We try to do a family theme (one year it was Peter Pan and then we all went as hippies the next year).  So far, the best we can [...]

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Cass is getting a new parapro (one-on-one educational aide) tomorrow. 
While Jeff and I were grocery shopping last Friday morning I got a call on my cell from the mom of one of the little girls who was in Cassidy’s class last year.  The mom asked if I had a second to talk and then proceeded to tell me [...]

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I finished it this weekend.  And by “I”, I of course mean we.  Jeff had to put up the hardware for the drapery and hang the wall art so that everything was all even and stuff.  When you ask an engineer to hang a picture you’d best be prepared for an arsenal of hi-tech laser leveling [...]

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Seeing as how he was my first baby boy, I didn’t know what to expect. 
I’d heard horror stories, from moms of boys.  They warned of lizards in pockets, rocks in dryers, and bloody skinned up knees.
Perhaps those things are in my future.
I’m okay with that.
For now, I’m enjoying the sweet parts of this perfect little man, [...]

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