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Acknowledging fears 2008-08-05 00:09:17 I lost a child already.
When I was 21, before I met Peter, I miscarried a baby that I hadn’t even known that I wanted until the moment the choice was taken away from me. My first instinct was to get rid of that baby, that I wasn’t ready, I wasn’t prepared. I spent days planning [...]
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Picking the best summer photo 2008-08-03 16:40:46 I need $500!
Ok, really? Does anyone not agree with that sentence? Could you not use a toasty $500 in your pocket at any given point in time? I’m already thinking of the school supplies and back-to-school swag I could purchase with that cash.
5 Minutes for Mom is running a Summer Fun Photo Contest with a [...]
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Because I dig my kids! 2008-08-02 17:00:21 Ok, how can I not?? These kids are the reason I smile, love and breathe. They are the best parts of me and Peter wrapped up in fresh promises and inumeral possibilies. They embody all our hopes and dreams.
We have such a busy weekend and upcoming week with these kids. Peter has been here for [...]
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The one where I get interviewed 2008-08-01 23:18:02 I had the chance to participate in the Interview Experiment jumpstarted by Neil at Citizen of the Month. He came up with this great idea for bloggers to interview bloggers, encouraging us to get to know each other better and to share even more of ourselves.
I signed up and quickly got an email full [...]
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Someone likes me, they REALLY like me! 2008-08-01 20:25:18 I just got a blog award handed to me from M at Elemento-P, not entirely sure what I did to deserve it, but I LUV it anyway! Cause I love me some awards.
This is what I got!
You like how shiny it is? I may sleep with it tonight. Hopefully, it doesn’t snore.
This is what I [...]
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All About Sleeping With Pete 2008-08-01 00:01:34 This is so not the post you THINK this is.
Peter and I used to have a nice constant sleeping pattern. I’d crawl into bed and be sound asleep while he passed out on the couch watching Scrubs/Stargate/ESPN. Then he’d quietly make his way to bed at some point in the dark of night, being very [...]
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The One Where I Write My Own Eulogy 2008-07-29 23:09:07 ***There’s a new event on our events page. There is a bone marrow drive in honor of Presley Dickson, and we are hoping and praying to find a bone marrow match for our friend Brooke Martin whose in desperate need of a match.***
It’s been a long week, folks.
Jimmy’s service, Grandma’s service and reading the stark [...]
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The Miami that Will Smith didn’t sing about 2008-07-28 01:45:05 As the family Mayhew is temporarily relocated to Miami
for the next few days, preparing to celebrate the life of one amazing Grandma E, there may be few chances for me to actually make an update. I hope to, I think this week may be FULL of wacked-out interesting events that are blogworthy, but family [...]
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Turtles, Hips and Chocolate Cake 2008-07-26 21:44:21 **Updated: Thank you to MaryLynn, without whom the “Bill Knapps Chocolate
Cake” recipe would not have passed into my email…and Peter wouldn’t be able to enthusiastically pester me with “Do you think that’s the real cake recipe?” until I am FORCED to try it. **
My dear hubby Peter has a thing for chocolate cake. He [...]
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The Healing Power of Ribbons 2008-07-26 00:42:19 It’s 1:30 in the morning and I should really be asleep. Like REALLY be asleep. As in, I know tomorrow is going to be an emotionally draining, tearfully painful exercise in grief and strength and I need to be resting to prepare for it. In 8 hours I need to walk into a funeral home [...]
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Olympic Randomness 2008-08-20 09:37:08 **Edited and updated to add this story about Michael Phelps. Thanks so much to one of the readers for sharing this because I think that perhaps this is a bigger accomplishment than a gold medal. THIS is the kind of young man that you want representing our country, one showing his compassion and strength of [...]
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Feminism takes a hit in my house today 2008-08-19 09:00:19 Because my husband works and lives 400 miles away I often have need of a man.
I need a man to perform those “special” tasks that only a man can perform for me. Perhaps you’re ok with taking care of them yourself, but I NEED a man!
Today, I got totally denied a man that I wanted. [...]
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Living in the path of Hurricane Fay 2008-08-18 11:41:48 I have gallon bottles of water sitting in my garage from the preparations for the year of hurricanes that was 3 years ago. Thankfully, Tampa was never hit and the worst that we suffered was a loss of power for a week. Which was awful, mind you….scrambling eggs on the grill is not something at [...]
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Rascal Flatts + Taylor Swift = Happy Awesome! 2008-08-18 07:30:41 Concerts I have attended over my lifetime:
Alabama
New Kids on the Block
Starship
Chicago
Most of the MTV Spring Break beach concerts from 1991-1993
Lalapalooza 1-2
Stone Temple Pilots
Reverend Horton Heat
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Garbage (yes, Mom, I actually paid to see a band called Garbage)
Smashing Pumpkins
George Strait (what can I say, I was confused)
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
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Thank God the Kids Get Their Hair From Me 2008-08-16 23:45:29 When it comes to balance in our marriage, I have to accept that Peter is smarter than me. That’s not a derogatory statement against myself, nor is it a way to add steam to Peter’s already inflated geek savviness.
The type of brilliance that Pete possesses is technical, information smart. He could be a brain surgeon [...]
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Next Stop, the Showtime Channel 2008-08-15 23:30:53 A sign that Peyton is outgrowing Dora the Explorer.
“How come every time they pretend like they don’t know where to go? They have a MAP! They always have the MAP! Map always tells them where to go. Why don’t they just look at the map first? Dora needs a Tom-Tom.”
Yes, because doesn’t every preschool-age world [...]
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Blogging for Blood Cancer, Because This Is What We Do 2008-08-15 07:10:53 Any time I see a blog that mentions cancer I get excited and zoom over to read it. I’ve found very few that ever mention pediatric cancers, so I guess our site is pretty unique in that. However, I am excited to share some other blogs written by mom’s of cancer kids who could use [...]
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Getting My PSA’s From Animated Movies 2008-08-14 05:00:41 I said Wall-E is a post for another day. This is that day.
I love me some cartoons! I adore Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks for the, mostly, wonderful animated movies they put out. Finding Nemo, Meet the Robinsons, Toy Story, Cinderalla, King Fu Panda, The Incredibles…I love ‘em…I’ll watch them when my kids aren’t around. I’m [...]
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Special Exposure Wednesday 2008-08-13 08:00:41 I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but whenever I see this picture I hear Sheryl Crow.
I’m gonna soak up the sun
I’m gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I’m gonna tell ‘em that)
This is my SpecialExposureWednesday
submission for 5 Minutes for Special Needs.
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Stuff They Don’t Put In Parenting Books, Part 326 2008-08-12 17:54:03 Peyton laid down a normal sleepy 4 year old.
She came out from her nap smelling of A&D ointment. That’s never a good sign. She started crying about 5 steps into the living room and couldn’t quit.
Does your booty hurt? Yes
Do you need to go poo? NO!
Do you have a rash? NO!
Why does it hurt? Sweet [...]
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The Cure Kids Cancer Challenge Contest 2008-09-11 22:30:20 This is Dana Bertoch. She’s a 20 year-old nursing student, a volunteer at the Children’s Cancer
Center, and an amazingly gifted crafter with jewelry. Dana has a business called Glamour Flops, designing flip flops with gorgeous Swarovski crystals and hand beading her own Bella Beads line of jewelry.
She is a cancer survivor. 4 years out [...]
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I seem to have misplaced my crown 2008-09-10 20:37:49 We caught the tail end of a radio commercial this morning that asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My children, of course, pounced on it.
Rachael - Mom, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Nathaniel – She IS grown up, Rachael
Rachael – Well, what did you want to [...]
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Oh, the random 2008-09-09 19:44:25 5 disturbing things my dryer produced this week:
empty tic tac box
underwear not belonging to any member of this family
a Ziploc baggie of play-doh (which, Ziploc? You got some mad skills for staying closed throughout a full wash and dry cycle. You are my hero!)
some feathers – not sure if the owner of said feathers is [...]
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I can almost hear the Metropolitan Museum of Art calling 2008-09-08 19:44:22 Peyton had her very first art class today.
This is what she produced.
She’s 4, people.
Oh Hai! My heart? It’s a’bursting with pride.
a2a_linkname="I can almost hear the MetropolitanMuseum
of Art calling";
a2a_linkurl="-can-almost-hear-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-calling/";
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A letter to Mattel 2008-09-07 20:27:33 Dear Mattel,
Your Barbie movies have been a part of our household for the past 4 years. Dancing princesses, princesses and paupers, fairies and mermaids….all of these have been embraced by my two daughters with complete and utter adoration. My girls sing the songs, they dance along, they wish for magic lands and sparkly adventures.
But tonight? [...]
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Next week will be better. Right? 2008-09-06 20:10:34 ** THANK YOU all so much. I have the best online friends and support group from this site. I can’t tell you how much each comment and email did to boost me out of my funk. Ya’ll are amazing.
After taking Peyton’s temperature eleventy-million times on Friday, she finally hit the hospital stay lottery number [...]
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Perspective, getcha some 2008-09-04 07:11:47 By 9:30 last night I’d worked myself up into a good old-fashioned pity party. Oh yes. With the appropriate music, my handy dandy bowl of chocolate and a chip on my shoulder the size of an Easter Island Head….that spoke to me….and said “EAT MORE CHOCOLATE”.
Which I did.
As the most irrelevant of events, yesterday morning [...]
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No such thing as a good spinal tap? 2008-09-03 18:33:04 Today I was proven wrong. Because today? Today I watched my child have a BAD one.
Peyton had her monthly visit at the clinic for a spinal tap with chemo injected into her spinal fluid and chemo in her port.
I’m not going to go into the awful details of WHY there was blood on the table, [...]
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My house is my castle…BAH! 2008-09-01 22:35:39 Maybe you look around your house at the end of a day and think about how glorious it is for everything to have a place and for it to be there. Perhaps you glance around with pride at the perfectly organized existence that is your world. Dishes washed, laundry folded and tucked away into tidy [...]
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Putting one foot in front of the other 2008-08-31 23:01:22 The first two weeks of school have passed us by. Smoothly, with no big hurdles to jump…except that part where I got talked into accepting the role as a home room mom. Yeah.
It’s a tippy-toe dip back into my pre-Peyton-cancer life.
Before she got sick I was all about the PTA, volunteering to read in the [...]
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