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Category: Call me mom
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Last Saturday, I slept until 11am and got nothing else done. That was okay. But this week my to-do lists are weighing heavier and heavier on my shoulders. I'm sinking…DROWNING… So this Saturday I'm kicking into high gear, pencil out, ready to start scratching things off and burning the lists. Heck, I'm so pumped, I didn't…
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Okay, I can't help it. I still think Tommy and Kirby as Mr. and Mrs. Smith (aka Branjelina) a couple of years ago is one of my all-time favorite couple-costumes. I just had to share the photos…. Happy Halloween again!!
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A few years after Daniel first wore the snow leopard costume, TG decided to wear it for the elementary school's Halloween parade (a tradition I enjoyed but then it was deemed inappropriate and changed to a Book Character parade in November, which was okay until they started telling the kids who they had to be…sorry, back…
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"What do you want to be for Halloween, Daniel?" "A snow leopard." A snow leopard? What the heck is a snow leopard? Daniel found me a picture. I gathered materials and stayed up until 3 am the night before his pre-school Halloween party hot-gluing black strips of felt (and occasionally my fingers) onto a white sweat suit,…
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BUSY! That's how today felt, but looking back on it from this end, it wasn't any more full than other days – I certainly didn't get any more accomplished. It was the same old Wednesday routine – work at home, exercise, shuttle Kendall to school, take care of dogs and guinea, job #1, lunch, shuttle…
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Sunday afternoons are made for soccer – hours and hours of glorious sunshine. It felt like summer again today. My umbrella and cherry snowcone helped me cool off a little, but I was still sweating on the sidelines watching TG and the Cosmos whoop up on the other team (6-1…TG scored one and almost scored two others.) …
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It's only Wednesday, but these last few days have been so long and hectic that Sunday seems like years ago. That's when I took my own advice about slowing down… I spent a few hours with Daniel doing nothing but laugh at his new Flight of the Conchords Season 1 DVD (his birthday present)…
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Tommy went to the University of North Texas in Denton. It was only four hours away but that was too far…I never got to see him, never really spent much time up there…although there was one year I drove him back on his birthday, treated him to dinner, and got a quick tour of the…
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"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind." When I came across these words by Emerson a few days ago, I immediately thought of Daniel, my middle child who turns twenty today…not so much of a child anymore, I guess. Daniel is all of these things…one of those amazing people that doesn't realize just how special…
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"Are these for me?" Kendall asked me this morning, referring to the muffins cooling on top of the stove. Of course they were for her – no one else was home. Why was she asking? Oh!!! "I forgot to put the blueberries in them! I'm so sorry!" "Mom, they ARE blueberry muffins."…
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