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Category: Call me mom
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Tommy's back in Dallas. He drove Tom's little Capris. While he was here, we ate and ate and ate some more – Tom smoked a turkey, and I made a double batch of cyclops cookies. They're already gone! Santa paid a special return visit and filled our stockings. One of my gifts was the movie "In…
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Christmas Day around here was lazy – centered around family and food. LOTS of food! We always have a traditional, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen breakfast on Christmas morning – bacon, fried eggs, and buttered toast. I ate so much that I still wasn't very hungry when Christmas dinner rolled around: non-traditional smoked brisket, chicken, and sausage. Of course, that…
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The dogs and I walked through a valley shrouded in mist this morning – it swirled up under my umbrella, making me feel a little silly carrying it (in my defense, I thought it was raining when I glanced outside before heading out because the mist condensate was dripping from the porch overhang.) Four white-tail deer…
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I feel like celebrating tonight! Daniel checked his grades and he had three A's and two B's!!! He now has a 3.6 average – well, for this semester, anyway. This time last year he was on academic probation, so this is a HUGE leap. I am so proud of him, and happy for him, too,…
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I knew it would be a busy day, but still…WHEW! First, an update on Tommy's vehicle saga: Tom changed his strategy…he left for Dallas at 5am this morning and just drove his Capris, not the truck and trailer. He already suspected the problem was the timing belt, and he was right, but Tommy told me (when…
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Our oldest called this morning, just to let us know his car had died while he was driving along a Dallas freeway and he was trying to figure out exactly what he should do next. Through a "comedy" of errors, he locked his keys inside of it before he had a chance to push it to the side…
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I totally apologize for my last post. Sometimes I drive myself crazy! The truth is, I talked to Tommy on the phone about his new job for almost an hour two nights ago. I've talked to my mom at least twice this week, my sister a couple of times, and three or four friends. …I'm working…
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Having another child doesn't affect your life in a linear way, as all parents of more than one child will tell you. That's still true, even when the child is twenty. Daniel is home for Christmas break, and that means more laundry, more groceries, more cooking, more bickering, more vehicles breaking down so more shuttling…but it also…
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It tugs on a mother's heart when her "babies" grow up. It comes suddenly…one day you're planning a party, buying gifts, baking a cake and the next, they aren't even close enough for a birthday hug. Today I worried that Tommy would be alone, that after work he'd just have an empty house and a television when he…
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The sky was filled with gray clouds on my walk again this morning, but my thoughts were filled with sunshine – my Sunshine Boy, that is, which is what I call Tommy because he's been lighting up my life since the day he was born…23 years ago today. I remember the first time I held him…
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