Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 26, 2009, 8:32 pm
Do you know how hard it is to get six people to look good in a picture all at the same time?It's nearly impossible. Especially when four of them are 11 and under!Getting our family pictures taken ...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 24, 2009, 7:45 am
According to the experts, I am a great cooker who knows how to make a mean brownie mix, has a cookbook...and could possibly beat her up.'Mom is the best cooker in the world,' Nick said last ni...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 23, 2009, 6:27 pm
the other shoe drops. Alek is sick. Well, I'm not sure, exactly, HOW sick he is - but he was sick enough that the school nurse called around noon to inform me he was complaining of a headache an...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 22, 2009, 11:03 pm
By the time Christmas comes around, we're going to NEED that week off so we can decontaminate.H ellooooo? Anybody out there? My name is Tami and I'm the author of this-here blog. Its been TWO...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 10, 2009, 9:26 pm
FALSE ALARM EVERYBODY! Alek doesn't have the piggy flu!Because I can't diagnose stuff to save my or anyone else's life... Well, THAT and then there's that whole fear of needles thing....
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 8, 2009, 5:48 pm
My big guy never gets sick, so when he gets knocked down by something I know he's really ill.The pigs have moved in...made themselves at home...and are taking us out, one by one. Alek was first. ...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 7, 2009, 9:19 pm
There's nothing official, but Alek was looking a bit peaked tonight. He was laying around on the couch, eating next to nothing, had red rings around his eyes and was just overall feeling kind of....
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 6, 2009, 11:18 pm
Still here... Still working... Still going crazy... more...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 5, 2009, 11:13 pm
Its just like her to come up with brilliant traditions like stuffing as many birthday balloons in the birthday kid's room as she can...and then for it to come back and kick her in the tail a few.....
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 4, 2009, 10:02 pm
Its late. I should be winding down - getting into my pjs, brushing my teeth and crawling into bed for a good night sleep.Instead, I'm sitting on the couch, watching the evening news and blowin...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 3, 2009, 9:27 pm
Feeling a bit like a junkie buying a hit on a street corner, I said, 'Let's do it.'Usually I'm not much of a drug user. Honest. I tend to forgo the Advi! for my own headaches, hoping t...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 2, 2009, 8:49 pm
IF, in order to appease your conscious, and to get your husband to shut his trap about the price of said dehydrator, you decide to start drying everything in sight...IF you decide to make a New... ...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Nov 1, 2009, 10:14 pm
I can hear that snickering. You just cut it out. Last year I took the challenge head-on and conquered it! So. There. I 'm at it again. I'm taking the NaBloPoMo challenge. I'm going to ...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Oct 30, 2009, 9:03 pm
I can't stand them - my imagination is waaaaay too overactive to handle it.I hate Halloween! Not only do my kids get WAY overstimulated...and loaded with insane amounts of sugar...they're al...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Oct 19, 2009, 9:00 pm
Sometimes life just creeps up behind you and kicks you in the tail, ya know? And the last few days have been a virtual kick in the pants - and not the good kind.I'm sorry...this post is really lon...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Oct 19, 2009, 7:30 pm
Tonight's prayer-time with Nick went something like this... Dear Jesus... Thank you for the great day today. Thank you for Mommy and Daddy. Thank you that I got to play outside today. Please h...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Oct 14, 2009, 8:02 pm
Things have been so rough with Maddie the last couple of weeks, I think I had forgotten how to smile...or laugh...until this morning. I found a stack of papers Alek left on the dryer. I imagine he......
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Oct 13, 2009, 11:38 pm
I need someone to remind me... Things will get better... She eventually will get it... Someday I won't have to deal with this anymore. Please. Someone remind me. I really don't have time...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Oct 6, 2009, 10:39 pm
Maddie believes in grabbing life with both hands, wrapping her arms around it and loving it to death.Poor Maddie. She's still sick. Really sick. Maddie is pretty pitiful when she's ill. I i...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Oct 5, 2009, 8:05 am
I did indeed have foresight, wisdom...nay, downright brilliance when I agreed to marry this guy.P oor Shad. Not only does he have to put up with me - for which he probably deserves some sort of a......
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Oct 4, 2009, 8:53 pm
I kindly reminded him that no woman likes to be referred to as 'Big' and if he wants her to treat him well, he needed to show some respect. I am having some SERIOUS writing block here, ladies...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 30, 2009, 9:48 pm
The hearing aid was involved in a perfect storm of unfortunate events. I have to say...for the most part, our school district is doing a pretty decent job of helping Maddie. You all know the concern...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 28, 2009, 10:53 pm
Yea. I know. I promised pictures and then I promptly dropped off the face of the earth for a week. But you don't know what kind of a week its been around here. There's been things like basebal...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 22, 2009, 9:48 pm
What do you know...two posts, two days in a row. And there are pictures to boot! I don't know ladies. I think I'm starting to spoil you! :) I mean, I don't want you to get used to this o...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 20, 2009, 9:28 pm
Ever since my return in late June, I have had one project piled up on another, which means I haven't been able to find a new normal.I know, I know. Bad blogger. Bad, bad, bad, bad blogger. Sorry....
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 8, 2009, 10:21 pm
I took one of those wacky quizzes on Facebook. You know...one of those what color are you or what type of dog are you, quizzes.This one was 'What type of flower are you?'Here are my results.....
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 7, 2009, 6:18 pm
Alek was holding on to the front of the bike and Maddie was now screaming and grabbing onto her leg.S had and the kids had no sooner walked back in the door this afternoon when near disaster... ...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 7, 2009, 1:26 pm
Wait! Do you hear that? That, my dear readers, is the sound of silence. Shad just walked out the door with... not one... not two... not three... but ALL. FOUR. KIDS! I am at home...BY. MYSELF! ...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 6, 2009, 5:06 pm
I have another password protected post published here. If you don't have the password, be sure to ask. :) more...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 2, 2009, 10:43 pm
I really thought this whole thing was going to be a battle...Okay...not technically. More metaphorically....because life with Maddie is definitely NEVER quiet. Day two of school and not a peep about...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Sep 1, 2009, 10:30 pm
I no sooner had, 'yes, sweetheart, you start school today' out of my mouth, before she jumped out of bed, ran over to the dresser, pulled out her clothes, put them on, ran across the hall, dow...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Aug 30, 2009, 9:34 pm
If I do come up with something, it's usually while I'm getting ready for bed and I'm so do-tired, I can't even begin to think about pulling out the laptop.I think I need to just take t...
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Tami C. posted an article on Sunflower Seeds - Aug 22, 2009, 4:27 pm
The boys have practice two nights a week...on different nights. And the rest of the time I'm putting in crazy hours at work.Our lives right now are filled with a) work and b) baseball. The boys h...
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