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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The Heart
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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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The Ceremony
Us, to Joe, ceremoniously: Joe, look! We have gathered all of your pacifiers here. You’re growing up, so you don’t need them anymore. We’re going to say goodbye to them. We’re going to put them …
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The Anniversary Game ™
Five years felt like a Thing, so Morrison and I headed to a Malibu hotel SANS JOE for a night. It just so happens that the hotel is also a wedding venue, and there were …
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Pants
Since having Joe, I’ve been a real journey trying to find pants that fit. More like post-PANTSdum amiright? ANYONE? ANYONE? I have searched low and high, I have tread from the sale sections at at …
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Burnout
No one: Say Bekah, what’re you up to this weekend? Me: Oh, just stressing about how to properly describe the stress I feel about not yet finding time to read this book that Blaine sent …
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Glass Pumpkins
Thumbing through my North Carolina Our State Magazine this morning, wishing its pages of Blue Ridge Mountain pictures were one of Bert’s murals that I could leap into, I came across a beautiful spread of …