My Life

Allie and Grace and Zeus

Something happened this week that is so typical of Allie right now. One of our cats, Zeus, is testy. He has a giant personality, and he always has. He doesn’t like men at all, and he has always pushed Grace around. Grace is afraid of him. She won’t walk over him in the hallway; she [...]

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Grace’s All That Glitters Party

Now that her new and improved bedroom is finished, Grace wanted to have a big public reveal. We invited a few friends to come over and enjoy a little party. When this sponsored campaign with Disney and Glidden began, I assumed that Grace would want to makeover her pink bedroom into a sparkly princess bedroom. [...]

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Ninety-nine and Sixty Hundred Xs and Os

Because I work in the evenings, Joe puts our girls to bed every night (except for Saturday, when I don’t work and take the pleasure). I wish I could take them to bed every night because I love bedtime, but I do get them all day long. And I have to work at some point. [...]

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If You Take a Mom to Target…

I wrote this post in September 2010, when I was six months pregnant with Allie. It still makes me laugh, so I wanted to give it a rerun. If you take a Mom to Target, she’s going to want a cart to put her purse in. If she gets a cart, she’s going to want [...]

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Be Prepared for A Big Day – Start With Milk

When you’re living fully, you have a lot of big days. Losing a tooth makes it a big day. A day full of sledding, snowman building, and snowball fighting is a big day. Disney on Ice makes it a big day. An Easter egg hunt makes it a big day. Going to Chuck E. Cheese’s makes it a [...]

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Watch Me on HuffPost Live – Not Bringing the Holidays Down a Notch

Last night, I was invited to be a guest on the Huffington Post Live – 45 minutes before the show. The show was about bringing the holidays down a notch. They had seen my recent post on the same, and they wanted me to join in the conversation. I had to run upstairs, put on [...]

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God Spoke To Me – And Not How You Think

You’ll never guess where it happened. My Sunday School class is more like a book discussion group. We read a book together and discuss one chapter each Sunday. It’s led by our pastor and his wife, and they choose books that really push my thinking about God and what He does and does not do. [...]

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Preserving Lucky’s Magic

For the last 3 years, my mom has played Lucky the Leprechaun for Grace. Every time we left the house during the week of St. Patrick’s Day, she would come over, make mischief (making little messes and dying things green), and leave little presents (a donut, a Shamrock shake, green beads, gold coins, candy). My [...]

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Pinewood Derby Cars

When we found out I was pregnant, Joe began to anticipate our future children’s Pinewood Derbies. He recalled the fun he’d had with his dad, planning and building cars and racing them at Cub Scouts. To say he was eager is an understatement. When Grace was one or two, Joe bought a Pinewood Derby car [...]

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Chicken Nuggets for Lunch

Allie is a big eater. She’s not fond of noodles or vegetables, but she will eat great quantities of fruit, bread, and meat. When Grace was Allie’s age, she ate everything. Well, almost everything. She didn’t like mangoes. But everything else. There was no other fruit or vegetable she wouldn’t eat. Somewhere around her third [...]

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