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Feb 3, 2012, 9:14 am
We're going to talk about Jacob again today.
Maybe I should just rename this blog the Jacob blog?
Anyway..,
I am sitting here watching the Today show and listening to Matt Lauer report on how, basically, it's probably my fault my child has ADHD because I might have put him in the bath too soon or pi... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 9:09 am
So today is Adam's day....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADAM!
Dear Adam,
I cannot believe you are SEVEN! I think I blinked and you grew up. Weren't you just a baby yesterday?
You are still my sweet little tiny, but you've changed some. You read very well and can add and subtract and you have the most beauti... Comment - Like
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Jan 8, 2012, 12:01 pm
My blog is broken. Or so I'm told.
Where did all those posts go? ;)
Oh, two kids with homework, a house to clean, a job to work.....oh, how I miss my early mommy days when I thought I was so bored. What I wouldn't give.....
Anyway...
There's so much to say and so little time. Where do I begin?... Comment - Like
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Nov 28, 2011, 9:32 am
We have lived here, in our new neighborhood over three years now. We were lucky to get out of there when we did. The last time I drove by, at the request of the boys, the graffiti was rampant and even the nicer homes seemed more rundown. Our house seemed okay, although the dead plants and wet new... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2011, 6:18 pm
Take only one child.
Preferably of the female persuasion.
Purchase frilly pink costume on the way.
Finally. Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2011, 9:41 am
I know what you're thinking.
Cut that child's hair already.
It's just that I really don't know what to do about it....
You see....
Elizabeth developed a new habit over the summer.
I think the official name for it is trichotillomania but she refers to it as "the crazy finger".
About July I st... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2011, 6:07 pm
Did I even post in September?
*sigh*
My official excuse: The beginning of the school year is chaotic and busy and lasts six long weeks.
The truth: Facebook ate my blog.
Oh well, where've you all been all this time? I sure do miss ya'll. Remember when we chatted everyday? What happened to th... Comment - Like
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Aug 14, 2011, 1:03 pm
Here are the pictures I took this summer.....
My sister's birthday...
And the weekend trip to the fancy hotel down the street....
Which was not so much fancy as it was scrungy, but, you know, live and learn.
Summer passed me by yet again. School starts T... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 11:41 am
Adam was supposed to spend this week with his grandparents.
But he's not.
Although this week has been crossed out for him for months, his summer school class cancelled for this week and the soccer camp he was going to attend scrapped because it interfered, he still isn't going to spend the week ... Comment - Like
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Jul 1, 2011, 6:39 pm
Is what crosses my mind every time I see this picture.
Poor little baby....just pitiful.
I don't remember if I mentioned it in the past, but my kids have warts. My late neice Laura got them at some point during her illness and passed them along to Jacob right before she passed away. Or maybe h... Comment - Like
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Jun 23, 2011, 10:12 am
We were able to get in yesterday with the child psychiatrist due to a cancellation. Thank you canceller.
I liked her much better than the last guy. We met with her an entire fifty minutes as opposed to the maximum six with the other guy. She also actually spoke to Jacob and asked him how he felt... Comment - Like
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Jun 12, 2011, 2:46 pm
The husband and I moved to Texas over eleven years ago. Just he and I and our very young pets made the 24 hour journey completely away from everyone and everything we knew.
We landed in a shitty neighborhood thanks to our stellar realtor who assured us we were buying in a very desirable area just... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2011, 6:09 pm
It ain't for the weak.
You have to prepared for everything and sometimes, well, you just aren't.
I just returned from a pool party. An hour early. Elizabeth pitched a fit of epic proportion over, well, I'm still not quite sure, but I told her once to either go back to the pool or walk with me to... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2011, 4:05 pm
is such a sweet little boy.
Oh, he isn't perfect. He can be stubborn. He sometimes sneaks out of the house to play with his friends without telling me. He knows where Jacob's buttons are and pushes them regularly. For the most part, though, he is a sweetie.
This morning as I was dropping off E... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2011, 10:30 am
My baby graduated from kindergarten.
Like, four weeks ago.
Although it was Adam's evening, the focus quickly shifted.
We let Adam pick the dinner choice that night and, of course, he chose Panda. It would've been really nice too if Jacob hadn't decided the only other people in the place were a... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2011, 9:11 am
Jacob received ONE award this school year....
Perfect Attendance.
In all honesty, I feel like that is really my award because, I mean, how the hell did he get there if not for me?
I did not even want to go to the awards ceremony. In fact, I almost didn't. This is the only picture I took and e... Comment - Like
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May 30, 2011, 3:41 pm
I couldn't find my camera most of last week. I finally found it today. Under the bed. And this is what I found on it.....
There was another really interesting one I had to delete once I figured out what it was.
I just hope he doesn't continue that when he gets a Facebook page. Comment - Like
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May 26, 2011, 4:18 pm
So today was the last day of school.
It was pretty unremarkable as last days of school go, well, aside from the huge water gun fight and having to watch my child be sprayed mercilessly yet not spoken to at all for the entire hour I put up with that shit before leaving early.
I really thought I was... Comment - Like
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Apr 24, 2011, 11:46 am
My dog almost died this week.
But he didn't.
Instead he got a $3500 spleenectomy done by a fancy-schmancy veterinary surgeon complete with new-fangled funnel alternative.
Plus the added towel since the expensive blow-up donut didn't keep him from releasing two staples in the blink of an eye.
T... Comment - Like
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Apr 18, 2011, 4:19 pm
Four years ago today....
It really does seem like yesterday.
It's hard to remember when we didn't have a little bit of pink in our house.
And can I just say how so very much I miss that sweet little boy rubbing my hair in that chair every morning. What I wouldn't give for one more morning of t... Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2011, 3:30 pm
Or at least that's what I hear ;)
I have lots to write about it, but no time in which to do it. We are in the last six weeks of preschool and along with that comes Mother's Day Tea, Father's Day Picnic, Easter Egg Hunts, and "Graduation". Those also come with art projects that must be laminated, c... Comment - Like
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Mar 8, 2011, 1:49 pm
Is being posted just because I like it.
Every day I get with that old dog is a gift.
And the girl too, yes, every day I get with that girl and her brothers is also a gift, but, you know, the dog is old so I am very grateful to have this picture and be able to take another today if we want. Comment - Like
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Mar 4, 2011, 1:10 pm
I swear, I don't know who this person is. I know I had a baby yesterday ten years ago but I haven't seen him in a while.
My baby is 10 today.
10.
10 = can't call him little anymore.
I still look in my back seat and expect to see him grinning at his roly-poly self in that Elmo mirror with a p... Comment - Like
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Feb 21, 2011, 11:37 am
Yesterday my furry baby was 13.
Last year he had a tumor cut off his leg. I cried the whole day.
The year before that he had a stomach bug for three days that I was sure was the beginning of the end.
I really never expected to see my sweet pup enter the "teen years". Especially after our firs... Comment - Like
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Feb 14, 2011, 5:30 pm
Why are kids so fucking mean?
I thought things were going better since I went up to that wretched school and demanded he not be bullied. Oh, he isn't bullied so much anymore. Well, in the let-me-shove-your-face-in-the-dirt kinda way. Oh no. They've just decided that Jacob can be no where near them a... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2011, 6:52 pm
It is funny how God works....
Today, my co-worker was taken by EMT to the hospital after experiencing dizziness, sweatiness, and severe chest pain. Thankfully, all children had been dismissed by then. Mine were there but she downplayed it and had me take them home before the ambulance arrived. Al... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2011, 5:25 pm
I can't stand seeing the gloom on my blog. That was never what I intended when I started it. I don't want to use the spot I created to celebrate my children to focus on the shortcomings of my life. My marriage isn't perfect. It never was. I really had no business airing it on the world wide web... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2011, 11:15 am
Aahhh....Monday.
It really is my favorite day of the week. My day off, the husband takes the kids to school, and I don't usually have any errands to run aside from fetching the school boys at noon and three. I am currently watching some strange new show on Nick Jr. with Elizabeth in our pajamas. ... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2011, 10:51 am
I hate Sunday.
I dread it all week long and not because it's the end of the weekend, no. In fact, I am a pretty big fan of Monday. It's my favorite day of the week.
I hate Sunday because it's church day.
I quit going to "our" church many years ago. I don't like it there. I like church allrigh... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2011, 9:14 am
I am sorta, kinda, keep-my-fingers-crossed getting better. So much better I went ahead and took my kids to a birthday party on Saturday. I drove an hour and twenty minutes each way when I really didn't want to and stood outside in a park for two hours shivering deep within my bones, but we went an... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2011, 1:31 pm
I am sick.
Who didn't see that coming?
I went to work anyway this morning since I don't have a fever and my fine motor skills have developed so that I can blow my nose AND cover my coughs and sneezes.
Three year olds...not so much.
The same parent who TWICE last week was told, HEY! YOUR KID IS... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2011, 3:17 pm
If your preschooler is sick, please do not send them to school.
They will not miss something crucial. We are not studying for the SATs.
We color. We sing. We eat snacks. Oh, sure, we learn letters and numbers, but we'll be on the same letter tomorrow and I promise it won't matter much if the... Comment - Like
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Jan 13, 2011, 3:06 pm
Please tell me the kindergarten "room mom"** did not just send an evite to the entire class inviting them all to her son's birthday party at the SAME. EXACT. TIME. as Adam's party.
She did NOT schedule her party the SAME. EXACT. TIME. three days after receiving MY kid's invitation.
It is on like... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2011, 8:07 pm
1. What curse word do you use the most?
I have to pick a favorite? I think maybe I should have added swear less to my list of resolutions. I work in profanity the way artists might work in oils or clay. It is my true medium.
2. Do you own an iPod?
Yes. And when it's charged up I love it.
3.... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 5:52 pm
Okie-dokie then...
1. I will learn my children's love language and use it. Often.
2. I will lower our grocery bill fifty bucks a month. Once I started working I got a little lazy and the last three months were well over what I typically spend. If I can drop fifty bucks that will take me to ab... Comment - Like
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Jan 4, 2011, 6:22 pm
I was going to type up my New Year's Resolutions this afternoon, but I just had the strangest phone call and thought I'd share that instead.
Okay. A little back story...
I have fourteen three (some now four) year old students. Most of them are only or first born children so this is their parents... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2011, 4:49 pm
I stole this from Fran. I no longer have original thoughts.
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Drove Interstate 10 alone from Houston to Lake Charles during rush hour traffic.
Left my kids with a babysitter for two hours to see a movie.
Had a biopsy.
Became a room mom.
2. ... Comment - Like
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Dec 27, 2010, 11:14 am
I'll never get a decent picture of my kids on Christmas Eve will I?
Oh well. These rotten ones are starting to grow on me.
I didn't get many pictures of the present gluttony. No one else would help me take any and I was spending to much time saying, "Show me what you got" and "Look the hell at m... Comment - Like
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Dec 24, 2010, 11:25 am
Our family has been blessed this Christmas. One of my precious students, whose mother just could not let her miss the holiday party even though she had a 104 degree fever, graced me with not only a huge hug but a parting uncovered sneeze resulting in all of us being diagnosed with the 11-day virus ... Comment - Like
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Dec 21, 2010, 3:13 pm
It's the first day of winter!
Brrrr....well, more like whew.
It's 85 degrees outside and I'm enjoying the weather my sweet little terrors babies.
They are currently painting an early Christmas gift of wiggly wooden snakes stripped down to their underwear while listening to Let it Snow. Don't ... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2010, 6:07 pm
My cat and my doll.
This is a nightly occurence.
Phoebe was never interested in the boys. In fact, she spent much time hidden in closets or under beds while they were tiny. She still doesn't seem to notice them much, although she doesn't hide as much as she used to.
The day we brought Elizab... Comment - Like
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