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I know it looks like I am a stripper but the wig is actually my husbands.

October 22, 2012

Running a story I told a while back.  Thought it was relevant since I cannot write today because Peter signed me up as room mother.  You would think the kid would know his mom a little better than that.  ;) Here goes… Have you ever felt like your kids school’s teachers and staff think you are disheveled, [...]

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Amazing Birthdays and Amazing Story

October 12, 2012

Yesterday we celebrated our twins 13th birthday. They were very sick when I was pregnant with them. They had what is called “Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome” that only affects identical twins.  They shared a placenta and when their umbilical cords attached they attached too close together.  Feeder vessels grew and shunted blood from one [...]

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Our Character on Character

September 23, 2012

Character on Character: Our eight year-old Peter and I spend a great deal of time in the school parking lots.  We are either waiting after we drop off his brothers at the middle school or waiting to pick them up.  Sometimes we play games, usually listening to music, and he likes to read to me [...]

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Birth of a Blog

September 2, 2012

By talking to myself I am ensuring my external hard drive keeps the memories that my mind sometimes cannot remember. When I looked back at my photographs I knew I needed to tell the story. My blog was born.

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Flowers for Hurricane and Lessons Learned

August 29, 2012

I grew up in the midwest and in fear of tornados that could form quickly and in the middle of the night. We moved to North Carolina during hurricane season.

It seems like such a gift that we know when a hurricane is coming, days in advance.

Katrina made me think.

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Funny First Days and the Proof is in the Photos

August 27, 2012

Mitchell, said with a very grown up matter-of-fact manner …”Dadda, I think there is more yelling than learning going on in Kindergarten.”

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Boy in the City

August 22, 2012

You can take the boy to the city but he’s still going to find a way to act like Tom Sawyer.

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Introducing Us

August 21, 2012

I want to create a place for people to check after they have read the days news in the car pickup line at school or on the side of a practice field and now you need a smile.

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Summer Camp

August 20, 2012

I went to summer camp for the first time when I was their age.

That is what I kept chanting to myself every time I had the thought to throw them back into the car and drive them to Disney World so I wouldn’t have to leave them with strangers

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Things Every Mom Says Or Just Mine

August 10, 2012

“Honey, I HAD you to do the dishes. You should be thanking the dishes. It is because of the dishes you exist.”

Every year I think my mother was smarter than the year before.

Here is a story about my mom called “Back Back Before You Could Just Go And Buy Boobies” that includes the obvious mention of boobs and chicken poop and how you can use one to get the other.

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