Tag: family
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A New Year, New Chances, New Goals, No Naps
Here I go again, always saying I’ll get back to blogging and to keeping up with things, and then life gets in the way and I feel like the only things I’ll have to talk about are my kids and what my kids are doing and getting my kids to eat new foods and my…
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Monday
First off, I need to stop abandoning my blog so much. I have so much mind dribble and it needs to go somewhere, so I’m not sure why I resist funneling it all into here. So consider this a quick recap post of the last few months. And then some. In various news items (and…
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The List Doesn’t Matter
Tomorrow is another day. I really hate that quote. Of course tomorrow is another day. Just like water is wet and my Swedish heritage makes me recoil from the sun like a vampire. Tomorrow is another day, and no doubt I’ll be sitting up in bed a few hours before Tomorrow gets here, scribbling down…
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No Amount of Caffeine Will Save You
I am currently hunkered away in my bedroom, with the door locked and the laptop in front of me. This is “getting away” now that I have children. This morning, I woke up a half hour before everyone else simply so I could take an uninterrupted shower and have time to do something with my…
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A Cover and Things
It’s Monday, and things are starting to feel a bit more like they’re getting back to normal. We had a weekend where we weren’t working on cars or painting the house or anything else that wasn’t going to church, taking the kids to the park, and sipping milkshakes. Which was lovely. I’m still lacking on…
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Still Alive, I Think
The above picture has nothing to do with this post. Except that Lego!Bilbo’s face is a pretty accurate depiction of how I felt all week. * * * One of the things that’s terrible about having kids is how susceptible to illness you suddenly become. Every cold, every bug and stomach flu and snotty nose…