Freaky Family

That day I’ll always remember. That was the day I gave birth to my second daughter. The one who would be adopted by another family and find me many years later to reconnect. It hasn’t been like some overwrought, overacted Hallmark movie, either. In fact, it’s been painless and joyful throughout. We are very lucky [...]

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Dinnertime Morsels With Jesus

August 15, 2009

Instituting a Mandatory Sit-Down Dinner with real utensils and a colorful plate (see: must include a green vegetable) (see also: everyone seems to like broccoli) (see finally: a happy mom) is something to which I aspire but can’t seem to pull off on a regular basis. I should do it more often because the conversations [...]

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My Mom Kicks More Ass Than Your Mom

July 17, 2009

If I had the title of this post as a bumper sticker I would rock it SO hard. My mother left for South Dakota two weeks ago to spread my gramma’s ashes on my grandpa’s grave, visit her old farmhouse, and spend some time with her sister. We played phone tag for three days and [...]

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Finishing The Details

June 8, 2009

This isn’t going to be a sad story. It just can’t be. But my only grandmother passed away last week. She was 91, lived a great long life, and there’s not a person in the world who could say a bad thing about her. After retiring from the school district for which she worked she [...]

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Mallory Turns SUPER Old Today

May 29, 2009

It was a mere year ago that I wrote this post for my oldest child, Mallory. She’s getting old, that’s for sure. The beautiful thing about having a kid in high school is that any time she makes fun of you for being old you get to remind her that she is a mere fifteen [...]

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Gratuitous Photos

May 26, 2009

We’re in the final countdown (are you singing that song now? sorry about that.) of the school year and until I can put pen to paper, brain to action, and figure out a way to hide my sadly neglected toes that are sorely in need of a pedicure … well, I’m just going to have [...]

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Somehow I’ll Make This Post About Pooping

January 26, 2009

During the Christmas holiday I housesat for my younger sister while she enjoyed some lovely East Coast weather with her boyfriend and son. With some spare time on my hands I decided to venture over to Whole Foods, a grocery store we don’t have in my area but that I hear much about from those [...]

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Mallory Is A Rotten Child

December 6, 2008

The nice thing about taking my time with writing these days is that it leaves time to actually go to my job every day and do some special things like sleep between the hours of midnight and 5 am. Those times are normally reserved for shopping online and word has gotten out about that because [...]

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When You’re 16 Going On 17

December 4, 2008

This is a guest post from Mallory who once claimed to me that she wasn’t a writer. I beg to differ. A letter of love from the eldest I remember the first time I met you. You were so small. And red all over. And scratchy. You weren’t in the world for five minutes before [...]

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