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Alternately titled: Riding in cars with girls… At least twice a week, Tia and I are in the car alone headed to gymnastics. I’d like to say this is a fun, relaxing girl time, but the truth is…it’s exhausting. Girls talk a lot. I mean, I know that I am a girl and I’m […]
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My husband, God love him, is ornery. He takes a sick and twisted amount of delight in scaring the s*&$ out of me on a weekly basis. While I am busy turning out lights, whispering prayers over sleeping babes and shutting down the house for the night with grace and love, he is plotting evil. […]
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I’m leaving this afternoon for the dotMom conference and the timing could not be more perfect. It has been a long, emotional, trying week. I need the refreshment. I need to get away. I need to be reminded of so many things. I’m so grateful and honored (and a little flabbergasted, to be honest) to […]
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Yesterday, I made my way downtown to the County Clerk’s office to track down yet another elusive form needed for the adoption. When I entered the building, I decided to run into the bathroom before heading up to the sixteenth floor. Friends, what I saw upon glancing in the mirror both shocked and horrified me. […]
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Last night I smothered them all in kisses. Soft cheeks still ripe with innocence and youth. Noses dotted with the freckles of childhood, when life is secure and free and beautiful and each day can be met with wonder and imagination. I don’t tell them about the fires. I don’t mention the lives lost and the […]
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I’m not what you might like to call a “cook.” I don’t enjoy preparing food. I do, however, like to bake because, let’s face it – it’s way more fun to eat baked goods than healthy foods. Am I right? I also consider myself an addict a connoisseur of all things Nutella. Some might call […]
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Life is messy. It tangles and weaves and chokes and hurts. But somewhere in the tangle, beauty springs forth. A cool breeze on a stifling day. A blanket of snow on a frozen ground. A tender giggle when the tears threaten to fall. God has woven so much beauty into this world, but… Sometimes you […]
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The winner of the American Girl six book Caroline Abbott book set (try saying that five times fast) is: Number 17: Bethany says: “This is my official Facebook entry comment. Boom!” Thanks for entering everyone! I wish I could have given every single one of you a copy. This is why I don’t […]
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I’m having a baby. Not in the traditional way that I’ve done in the past. There is to be (hopefully) be no weight gain with this pregnancy, no migraines, no maternity clothes. HOLLA! This pregnancy is peppered with hour long phone calls to the Board of Medicine for an obscure letter, mountains of paper work […]
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