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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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Fa La La La La

November 24, 2008

It happened this morning for the first time this season. I was taking the kids to school and the DJ’s on the radio caved to a call in music request.  Before I could change the channel, George Strait’s version of Deck the Halls overtook the minivan. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a fan of Christmas [...]

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Soldier Boy, the New Vanilla Ice

September 7, 2008

A certain someone in our household celebrated her fourteenth birthday over the weekend.  Fourteen. Yikes. She had six of her friends over for a party on Saturday.  Watching them it was crazy to see how much things have changed.  And how little. At my thirteenth birthday party my friends and I plugged a boom-box into an [...]

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To Explain My Absence

August 26, 2008

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 [...]

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Don’t Mess With Me. I’ve Got Peeps.

August 25, 2008

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 [...]

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The End of The Award Hoard

August 21, 2008

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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He’s Two Today

August 14, 2008

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 [...]

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