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This I Believe
This is sort of a moment of shameless self-promotion, but I don’t profit from it so I don’t feel too weird. Five years ago I was inspired to try my hand at writing by the ‘This I Believe’ project on public radio. I’ve heard some fascinating essays on that segment, and have even printed MORE »
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A Dragon, A Blue Jay, and a Dog Named Spot
Costumes! I actually finished all my kids’ Halloween costumes in time! And not just in time for Halloween (which, sadly, doesn’t mean anything here on the real day*), but for my girls’ choir rehearsal where they were allowed to wear costumes, and the school dance which happened mid-week before school let out for a MORE »
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Pumpkin Fun
Pumpkins! I love pumpkins. I even love just saying the word ‘pumpkin.’ I have yet to learn how to actually cook a pumpkin, but I make good roasted seeds, and this year for the first time the kids ate some with me instead of sucking on them for a moment and spitting them MORE »
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Pain is not a competition
All pain is relative. We each of us live in our own skin and view the world through a lens crafted from our own experience. Sometimes we are able to empathize, and sometimes we aren’t. Some days I successfully put myself in another person’s shoes before voicing an opinion, and other days I fail. MORE »
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A Mew-Mew by any other name….
For anyone interested in the outcome of our recent kitty drama, please read on…. After two weeks of pondering what to do with Mew-Mew Lilly we decided to try passing her on to a good friend of ours. Mew-Mew had been straying farther and farther from our yard and I was getting MORE »
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The Tooth Fairy may have to just move in
Mona has been losing baby teeth left and right lately, and showed me another loose one this morning. This was Mona back in July with a mouth full of teeth: Then suddenly four of them were loose at once and there was much wiggling of teeth going on for several MORE »
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Costume Progress
It’s almost Halloween! I love Halloween. And as one of those annoying moms who likes making costumes from scratch, I’ve been busy. I don’t really sew, I just kind of make things up, but I do have to make my kids’ costumes from materials that can withstand multiple trips to the washing machine because they MORE »
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Okay, so at what point is this officially our cat?
I got home after taking the kids to school and going to the Y the other day and there was a message on our answering machine. A neighbor a few doors down called to say, “Your cat is up in our pine tree and we thought you should know.” YOUR cat. Meaning OUR cat. MORE »
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Beyond the baby steps
It’s hard to remember life before my first baby. I know the details and can recall much of it, but I don’t feel connected to it in the same way I do to my memories since adding Aden to my world. Maybe that sounds strange, but the transformative effect of having children has added MORE »
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