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Ode to Alone
Alone mamma? In the singular Mamma! quiet as can be. Mamma, where are you!?! I think that I almost forgot the sound made by a ticking clock. Being a stay at home mom to two rowdy boys ages five and...
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We Think of you While you are Sleeping
Monday through Friday Carter and I have lunch together before he heads off to his afternoon preschool. Almost everyday over our meal Carter brings up “the people on the other side of the earth”. I...
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Summer Toys. Winter Toys.
It has been past time for quite a while. Finally on a not so rainy day last week I decided the time had come. Cody was at school and since it was a Friday, Carter was home all day with me. Carter...
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Sleeping with the Circus
For Christmas Husband and I got the boys a small circus tent from IKEA. The circus tent is really very small and Cody and Carter are really much too big but it was on super sale. After going into and...
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This Just in (or Would That be Out?)
This afternoon I received a call from the school nurse. She quickly assured me that everything was fine (the first words out of anyone’s mouth from the school when they call. It only took one time of...
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Sun and Whine
It was a blistering 68 degrees this afternoon in our lovely corner of the Pacific Northwest. Carter was home with me all day as he does not have preschool on Fridays. He was tired of watching me wash...
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Unearthed
This morning Carter got up on the wrong side of the bed (for the life of me I can’t figure out how he continues to do this for when we combined the boys’ beds into bunk beds we made sure to push the...
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The Little Blue Robin Egg
On our walk home from the school bus this afternoon I spied a small light blue egg shell by the side of the road. It was really only half a shell and it led to the following discussion. carter: If we...
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Simple Sunday – Brought to you by the Letter P
me: Who peed on the floor? The boys look up from their play, there is one moment, two moments, three moments of confused silence, and then they smile and start to laugh…
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Full Disclosure and Gettin’ Lucky
Yesterday Cody was finishing his lunch when this conversation occurred, completely catching me by surprise. cody: Is a baby alive while inside the mom’s tummy? me: Yup, babies grow bigger and bigger...
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Simple Sunday – Just Google It!
Carter has his very first loose tooth! My youngest son, the baby of the family. Soon the landscape, the morphology of his sweet little boy face will forever be changed with the loss of his first baby...
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Confessions of a Stand Up Pee-er (or Two)
One morning, not too long ago, I was awaken by the voices of the two resident little people – Cody and Carter. At first I could not make out what they were saying as their voices were muffled by their...
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“Momma – It Just Runs in the Family!”
Today Husband took Cody to a physical therapy evaluation. School had ended by the time they were done and so he dropped Cody off at my school to hang out with me in my classroom so he could go back to...
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Another Wonderful Year
This will be his last year in the single digits. Today Cody, my first born son, turns nine. As my long time readers know, Cody was born premature – a 26 weeker. He weighed 2 pounds 1.5 ounces. I...
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Things I Find in the Dryer
me: Carter! You can not leave Steve in your pocket. Don’t you remember what happened to Sheep? carter: In his sweet little angelic voice – Sorry momma but sometimes I forget things. me: sigh… This...
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Sun and Whine
It was a blistering 68 degrees this afternoon in our lovely corner of the Pacific Northwest. Carter was home with me all day as he does not have preschool on Fridays. He was tired of watching me wash...
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Unearthed
This morning Carter got up on the wrong side of the bed (for the life of me I can’t figure out how he continues to do this for when we combined the boys’ beds into bunk beds we made sure to push the...
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The Little Blue Robin Egg
On our walk home from the school bus this afternoon I spied a small light blue egg shell by the side of the road. It was really only half a shell and it led to the following discussion. carter: If we...
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Simple Sunday – Brought to you by the Letter P
me: Who peed on the floor? The boys look up from their play, there is one moment, two moments, three moments of confused silence, and then they smile and start to laugh…
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Full Disclosure and Gettin’ Lucky
Yesterday Cody was finishing his lunch when this conversation occurred, completely catching me by surprise. cody: Is a baby alive while inside the mom’s tummy? me: Yup, babies grow bigger and bigger...
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