Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Family
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Sometimes the days leading up to a vacation can be so stressful, so packed with activity trying to tie up loose ends and anticipate problems, that you wonder if it's even worth it to try to get away. That's how I was starting to feel this week, especially considering the number of emotional twists…
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"It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last." ~William Barrett, American philosopher and professor. Relevant words, especially for these days…celebrating fathers, remembering a friend's son, and looking ahead to when I really take Kendall to college…in only a few short weeks. These are hectic, heartbreaking, busy…
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The minute I set eyes on my firstborn, I felt that fear…that pain of imagined loss. Until I was a mother, I didn't have an inkling of the kind of fear a parent lives with every day – the death of your child. But it is born along with your baby and you carry it with you long…
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Confession…I spanked my kids. And I don't regret it. Especially after watching this…
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If I had my druthers, I wouldn't be in a grocery store checking out at 8:15pm. But that's the only chance I had to go this week, and we were down to slim-pickin's in the pantry. So as soon as the pork tenderloin was done and I had eaten, I grabbed my list and headed to my Cedar Park HEB. It…
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It was love at first sight -Tom knew the minute he saw these 5+ acres that it was the property for us. I agreed and we bought it without looking at anything else. It was the pond and creek that did it – our original dream of a lake view just floated downstream like…
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I just returned from the vet with Max. I gained two new bottles of pills, a huge anti-lick collar, and some "Yuk" ointment in case the collar doesn't work. I lost $150. Well, $180 when you count Charly's thyroid medicine. Yes, thyroid medicine. We also give Charly and Max daily fish oil capsules and Glucosamine; Charly gets them for…
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Wasn't it just yesterday I stood in this colorful classroom serving cookies and punch and celebrating Kendall's graduation from kindergarten? She was so ready for 1st grade – for sitting at real desks, for skipping naps, for moving one chapter closer to this past Friday, when she and her classmates accepted the final diploma the…
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Tom and I are trying to slow down a little. We've been hitting the trails on our property the last couple of days, taking advantage of the sunshine and sub-100 degree temperatures while they both last. This evening, Charly, Max and Frankie all went with us, but yesterday the dogs wimped out and just Frankie tagged…
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Tom and I were driving up to Maryland for the first time so I could meet his family and childhood friends before our wedding. It was my first time in Tennessee, the Carolinas and all of those other states between Texas and Maryland. What a fabulous trip – seeing the sunrise just outside of Nashville,…
Long Hollow 