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Finding Courage Through Sharing Blog Carnival — May 2008 2008-05-22 02:55:22 This month, write a post to share something that you wish other people understood about your life with a child or children facing medical challenges.
(For carnival rules and information click here.)
Like those dark circles? Five years later and I’ve still got ‘em!
You know, it’s a funny thing… I selected this [...] Read more:Sharing
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It’s Only Fourteen Hours… Part II 2008-05-17 01:30:15 Part two in my demented series that chronicles that exceptionally naive question: “So what exactly do Stay-At-Home-Moms do all day?” If this post isn’t enough for you, you can read Part One by CLICKING HERE, but by the end of this post I doubt anyone will be so inclined. Are you ready? Well, [...] Read more:Fourteen
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May Topic For The Finding Courage Through Sharing Blog Carnival… 2008-05-17 01:06:03 Sorry this is a couple days late, but here’s the May topic for the Finding Courage Through Sharing
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This month, write a post to share something that you wish other people understood about your life with a child or children facing medical challenges. See you back here next Thursday!
If you would like more [...] Read more:Blog Carnival
Imagine… A Bigger Prize Package!! 2008-05-14 00:06:13 So just a couple days into this benefit for Rhett and Parker, and we have some volunteers to make this even bigger! If you want to read about the details of the benefit and see my original four drawings, CLICK HERE.
First, the stunning, most fabulously wonderful Ursula of The Daily Drool has offered [...] Read more:Imagine
Imagine… 2008-05-11 16:04:27 Imagine a child. A beautiful Child. A child with sparkling eyes and a smile that lights up a room. A child loved by a young mother, a young father — as precious to them as the air they breathe. Can you see this child?
Imagine the color blue. Softly at first. So faint you’re not even [...] Read more:Imagine
This Is Why We Don’t Have Nice Things!!! 2008-05-09 12:39:17 Hmmm… I wonder who could have possibly done this? (Note to Miss Jacqui: Generally not the best move to sign the scene of the crime…)
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Picky Eaters Club — May 2008 Edition 2008-05-07 23:35:08 For our first edition here, let’s introduce ourselves, and our picky eater (or eaters). Then in whatever format you choose, share one tip for a success you’ve had with your picky eater, or ask for tips for dealing one challenge that you’ve been facing with your picky eater.
I’ll try to include a tip both [...] Read more:Edition
Tea With The Fairies… 2008-05-04 22:17:40 Every spring, our little town has a wonderful tyke-sized fairy tea party. Here are a few glimpses of my most magical day with a most adorable little fairy…
Hope your weekend was every bit as magical!
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Dad’s Out Of Town — Everybody Meltdown… 2008-05-23 23:53:47 Three. More. Hours. Can I survive three more hours? I’m not at all certain at this point.
Ken left on a week-long business trip at ‘0-dark-thirty on Monday morning. His flight gets back in sometime around midnight tonight. That is, if it doesn’t get delayed again. I feel like such [...] Read more:Everybody
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Please Make It Stop… 2008-05-26 22:41:34 Kyle is cutting his two year molars.
And we’re all so very happy about the situation.
Anyone have any ideas?
Artist Source Unknown
‘Cause I’m fresh out…
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Dandelion Days… 2008-05-28 22:05:04 There is laundry to do. Floors to vacuum. Dishes to wash, but she calls: “Let’s take our babies for a walk, Mommy — you ‘an me!” She grins clutching a favorite doll and suddenly my to do list doesn’t seem nearly so epochal as it did a moment ago. A sparkle [...]
Baby Take A Bow… 2008-06-02 02:44:30 Best Shot Monday
After all of the tears, all of the heartache, all of the surgeries, worries and sleepless nights — there she is. Twirling through her first ballet recital as Ken and I exchange misty-eyed smiles and applaud for all we’re worth. It doesn’t get any more magical than that!
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And We Have A Winner! 2008-06-02 01:04:03 A great big thank you to everyone who helped make our Imagine fund raiser for Rhett and Parker a success! Thanks to you, $350.00 was raised and $175.00 will soon be on its way to each of these wonderful families. Be sure to stop by and say “hi” to Tammy and Parker, now [...]
Deconstructing Mommy… 2008-06-04 19:56:53 parenting children motherhood kids humor ER funny sick day asthma allergies teething prednisone SAHM Read more:Mommy
Handmade Beaded ID Necklace… 2008-06-04 05:38:09 I don’t know about yours, but my kids are FAST! I turn my back for a minute and they’re half-way across town. Needless to say, I was a bit worried when we first traveled to NYC in 2005 for Jacqui’s surgery. In addition to tagging her with an electronic locator (we [...] Read more:Beaded
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Wordless Wednesday — Note To Self… 2008-06-03 22:55:05 These two things serve exactly the same purpose in the mind of a two-year-old…
For More Wordless Wednesday
Posts… CLICK HERE and HERE.
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State Of The Household Address… Standby For The President… 2008-06-08 16:55:36 My Fellow Plebians:
Seven long days have passed since I last stood before you at this rostrum. In that time, our household has been tested in ways none of us could have imagined. We have faced hard decisions about peaceful bedtime negotiations, the war on laundry, rising dishes in the kitchen sink, and the abysmal health [...] Read more:State
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Oops… There Goes My Last One… 2008-06-09 20:25:28 Photographer Unknown
Pneumonia. Again. That’s right — for any of you who have been keeping count, this is my ninth round with my little pet pneumonia bug we have affectionately taken to calling Yersi. Well, ‘we’ meaning ‘I’. Ken still doesn’t find that particular little joke to be all that funny. [...]
Picky Eaters Club — June 2008 Edition 2008-06-11 22:53:43 For this edition, share a success story from the past month, a new tip or trick you’ve picked up… or feel free to make a desperate plea for help.
(For information about Picky Eater’s Club, click here.)
Well, our house has not exactly been a model of progress in this realm over the past month, [...] Read more:Edition
Singing Through The Rainy Month Of May… 2008-06-13 23:00:31 Remember this little button? This one that I told you I was going to pass on each month to extra special bloggers who are inspirational in their strength? To extraordinary souls who laugh when they feel like crying and and lend you the courage to do likewise? Well, even though I’ve gotten [...] Read more:Singing
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To The Man Who Makes Our World Go ‘Round… 2008-06-15 05:36:50 Happy Father’s Day — We Love You To The Moon And Back Again
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Gluten-Free Gems… GFCF Maple Banana Bread With Turbinado Sugar 2008-06-16 21:58:33 Thought I would share a recipe with you that’s been a recent hit at our house. It’s a GFCF makeover of a family recipe with a few tweaks of my own thrown in. Jacqui really likes the light crunch that the turbinado sugar gives to the top crust and says she loves the [...] Read more:Gluten
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Finding Courage Through Sharing Blog Carnival — June 2008 2008-06-26 05:21:51 This month, write a post to share about someone in your child or children’s experience who took time to make a difference for your family — you know, that kind nurse who you still remember with grateful tears, the doctor who treated your child like a person and not a medical record number, that special [...] Read more:Sharing
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Best Shot Monday — Mystery Photographer… 2008-06-23 01:38:22 I’m back home from my weekend conference, and other than the house appearing to have been ransacked by ravenous bears during my absence (or other equally untidy beasts), the family seems to have survived quite nicely. However, no one was particularly forthcoming during my attempts to garner specific details of the weekend events at home. [...] Read more:Monday
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Wish Him Luck… 2008-06-19 10:18:53 Image Courtesy Istock Photo
I’m headed out of town today for a conference this weekend.
Ken is not.
Neither are the kids.
Wish him luck!
P.S. I’m waaaaaaayyy behind on blogging (and life in general) right now, but don’t give up on me… I’m hoping to catch up soon…
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Did You Come Here Hoping For A Story? 2008-07-11 13:41:12 You did? Well, good ’cause I wrote one!
Want to read it?
Well, I’m over at 5 Minutes for Special Needs today — come join me…
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The Big Reveal… 2008-07-10 16:48:46 So do you all remember when I told you that I would have something special to share with you this week? Something that had been taking up much of my spare time that I was excited about, but couldn’t tell you about yet?
Well wonder no longer — the day has arrived!
Five Minutes For Mom [...] Read more:Reveal
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