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Tomorrow morning, July 10, at 6:21 am will mark seven years since I first became a mother. It is hard to express in words exactly how proud I am of this child and the young man he is growing into. He is tenderhearted and caring. He is funny and expressive. He is smart and thoughtful. He […]
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She is sugar and spice and everything nice, but she also has a bit of frogs, snails and puppy dog tails in her. Or, you know, night crawlers. Ugh…
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We did it! We conquered the great outdoors. We survived the big woods back woods of Missouri. We lived off the land. We were pioneers – FTW! Actually, if we want to get technical, we lived off of Walmart brand boxed foods and our minivan served as our trusty wagon, faithfully toting our belongings into the […]
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Sloan: “Hey Mom! What if I had a fire bootie?” Me: “Um…what?” S: “What if I had a fire bootie? Then, if a dinosaur started chasing me, I could just toot and it would be like a rocket and I could get away.” Me: *silence* There’s really no way to respond to that. ______________________________________________________ Sloan: […]
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I have lived in St. Louis since I was 12 years old, minus the six years during and after college when I lived in Texas. And in all that time, I never once visited the Missouri Botanical Gardens. I’ve seen pictures and heard people rave about what a great place it was, but for some […]
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Our wedding reception was a heck of a party. If I had to do my wedding over again, there are only two things I’d change. Number one – the videographer. They edited a bunch of footage out (who edits out footage of someone’s WEDDING!) and included some seriously cheesy background effects. Seriously. When Lee and […]
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I was fifteen years old. A sophomore coming out of a time of rebellion. I was dealing with a lot of questions and deep hurts. Some of the questions are still unanswered, some were the creation of youthful immaturity. But the fact remains, my soul was ripe for harvest. I was approached one Sunday afternoon […]
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One year ago I was doing a bunch of this on the beaches of Turks and Caicos: I’m not going to lie to you. I wish I was back there right now…
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Thank you, Pixar and Disney, for making me a blubbery, sobby mess. Thank you for gently forcefully ripping my heart from my chest and using it to play ball for 109 minutes. Thank you for making me so emotional that my husband, when asking what I thought about the movie, had to make a hasty […]
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