We zoom-toured a Montesorri School for Joe last week, a school that he’s been on the waitlist for SINCE HE WAS SIX DAYS OLD, and will still most likely not get into until he’s 3. …
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What kind of Mother
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The Heart
Lately (always?) I’ve had trouble falling asleep, I can’t turn my brain off and / or just lay there looking at Joe’s little butt in the monitor hoping he won’t be up at 5 again, …
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Toddle Tale
Lately I don’t quite know what to put here, but I am maniacally committed to putting, even if it’s just a word, and the word is just HI or NO. My brain is mush of …
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Blessed Are
For mysterious (obvious) reasons that I can’t formally talk about yet, I’ve been reading (devouring) a lot of Rachel Held Evans’s writing, as of late. What I’d actually like to do is get her entire …
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Mom, Dad
I want to call myself the family Historian, but my brother Pete ACTUALLY knows the details about how our Grandfather’s family back in Germany came be known as Brunstetters (Brown town; people who fled from …
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Tangles
I have these two amazing necklaces that I want to wear every day — a wee pecan from Morrison and a Notebook from Ingrid — but literally, HOW does one wear more than one necklace …
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Flu Shot
Flu Shot: What’s up dummy! How’s it going? Me: Oh hey! Good, kinda / busy — Flu Shot: Coo, cool! Do you want me? Me: Oh! I actually don’t typically get one — I mean, …
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BEARS REPEATING
LISTEN, I’ve been receiving a REAL lack of support and understanding from certain LOVED ONES regarding the very OBVIOUS naming of our family Halloween costume. We were a family of bears, ie, we were BEARS …
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How I’ve never felt
I think I spent a good part of 2004-2008 only eating this exact Lean Cuisine, with its weird caramel sauce and 2 pieces of chicken, and It never made me giggle or glow. IF ANYTHING, …
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Pecan
Morrison and I were married underneath a Pecan tree, and after we bought our house, we realized that the tree out front was in fact Pecan. Factor in that we both love Pecan pie, and …