Dec. 17, 2009 6:59 am
Updated: Apr. 7, 2011 10:35 am
Happy Birthday, Olivia!
My little girl is 8 today. We're having her birthday party in two days with family and friends, a sleepover and a bit of time in the pool Saturday while I teach class. The dinner request is for rigatoni,
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Dec. 7, 2009 5:33 am
Updated: Dec. 10, 2009 11:15 am
Right. So, my almost-eight-year-old (this is how she refers to herself) daughter decided she would like to have an Easybake oven for Christmas. Went so far as to ask the man in red for it. Now, don't get me wrong here - I love the idea that she wants…
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Nov. 27, 2009 1:23 am
Updated: Nov. 27, 2009 5:59 pm
This Thanksgiving was the best I have had in a very long time. My mother's house was full of people I love and I got my first voluntary hug from my cousin's youngest, which was the best gift of the evening to me. I got to meet the love of my other cousin's life and his…
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Nov. 16, 2009 12:22 am
Updated: Nov. 17, 2009 4:10 am
I finally took down the Halloween decorations last weekend and did a thorough, pre-Christmas decoration cleaning. It isn't that I'm lazy...I leave the Halloween decorations up for as long as I can get away with doing so because it's just my favorite holiday. …
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Nov. 10, 2009 6:45 am
Updated: Nov. 14, 2009 6:13 pm
It's cold. It's damp. It's almost winter. Ew.
Everyone is dressed in layers (except my son, who thinks it can't possibly be "cool" to wear a coat) and their bodies are still adjusting to the rapidly dropping…
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Nov. 4, 2009 5:45 am
Updated: Nov. 9, 2009 5:42 am
I refuse to believe that just because I live in a small town that it's "okay" for me to have to drive half an hour either way to buy decent food. What makes people assume that "backwoods" is synonymous with "food-stamp-wielding-redneck"? Not that I have…
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