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Man, I hate getting behind. Where was I …. Brian turned 33, and just like last year, he and I (and Skip this year) spent his birthday weekend in Ashland. And once again, he ran a 31-mile, muddy, freezing, trail run. Crazy. And I went shopping–Walmart, Costco, and the shops and Farmers’ Market of Ashland. …

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Man, I hate getting behind. Where was I …. Brian turned 33, and just like last year, he and I (and Skip this year) spent his birthday weekend in Ashland. And once again, he ran a 31-mile, muddy, freezing, trail run. Crazy. And I went shopping–Walmart, Costco, and the shops and Farmers’ Market of Ashland. …

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You know what? Ignore what I have written in my personal little ditty on the left side of my blog. Sometimes it isn’t fun being a mom. I don’t always love it. Some of the time I don’t even like it. Too often I realize I’ve gone through an entire day without really smiling or …

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You know what? Ignore what I have written in my personal little ditty on the left side of my blog. Sometimes it isn’t fun being a mom. I don’t always love it. Some of the time I don’t even like it. Too often I realize I’ve gone through an entire day without really smiling or …

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After a lot of years of feeling like I was still young and at least partially “with it”, I have now gotten to the point where I really do feel like I’m getting old. Things are changing. Yesterday Brian granted me a whole 14 hour day to myself to go shopping and just be by …

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It’s been a good couple of weeks. Its birthday season at our house, you know. My little Sugar Plum turned four. She is adding; she is swimming; she is feisty and tough as heck; and when she cries, huge tears pour out of her eyes. When Dan was a baby, one of Audrey’s boyfriends asked …

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It’s been a good couple of weeks. Its birthday season at our house, you know. My little Sugar Plum turned four. She is adding; she is swimming; she is feisty and tough as heck; and when she cries, huge tears pour out of her eyes. When Dan was a baby, one of Audrey’s boyfriends asked …

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So this morning as I was arriving at the school to drop off Camp and Jane, Camp started wiggin’ out. Apparently he had forgotten something very important. Desperately wanting to avoid any kind of breakdown, I quickly reassured him that we would return home to grab the forgotten item(s). On the way home, I asked …

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So this morning as I was arriving at the school to drop off Camp and Jane, Camp started wiggin’ out. Apparently he had forgotten something very important. Desperately wanting to avoid any kind of breakdown, I quickly reassured him that we would return home to grab the forgotten item(s). On the way home, I asked …

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You know what I don’t understand? I don’t understand why so many children’s Halloween costumes have an entire extra head attached to the hood of the costume. Do you know what I mean? It makes so much more sense just to have ears or something attached to the hood and just have the child’s face …

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