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A Tonsillectomy In Review

May 14, 2009

It’s official.  We are now a household that includes just eight tonsils. Cass was a little champ for her surgery.  And there was only a fleeting instant during which I thought my legs might crumble beneath me.  It was as they wheeled her bed through the OR doors that we weren’t allowed through.  Jeff and [...]

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You’ve Heard of Brain Freeze? I’ve Got Brain Fry.

April 7, 2009

I hate it when my brain is so fried I can’t come up with a blogging topic. My brain is precisely that fried though. Because I’ve been writing. A lot. A whole, whole lot. Just not here. I’ve resumed a local paying writing job. But more importantly… I’m doing some major revisions on my novel. [...]

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A Different Kind of Date

March 18, 2009

Last year on St. Patrick’s Day our whole family was in the middle of a Spring Break vacation.  We spent nine days exploring all the sights in Washington DC, with a brief stopover in New York City.  Jeff and I were able to sneak a date night in during the trip and it happened to [...]

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Pottery Barn Imposter

January 7, 2009

You remember how I told you that I spent the first weekend in December painting, rather than baking and wrapping and doing all the other things I should have been doing?  Well, I had good reason for putting myself through all that work.  Kennedy, you see, had requested a ‘new room’ for her birthday this [...]

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I’m Here. Just Wimpy.

December 29, 2008

Twice each year the girls go off to visit their dad and while I absolutely miss them like crazycakes I try to make the best of the time by enjoying a much, much slower pace with just Jeff and Jayce.  We tend to do a lot of shopping and eating out seeing as how those [...]

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Too Busy to Blog

November 26, 2008

 

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Oh, The Places We’ve Gone

November 25, 2008

Nine years ago today it was Thanksgiving. I wasn’t home cooking or eating.  Or celebrating with family. I was in the hospital, a twenty-two year old mother having just delivered her third daughter. Laying in that hospital bed, reeling from Cassidy’s diagnosis, I struggled to find a single thing to be thankful for. Over the [...]

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