Yearly Archives: 2010

I changed the header to the blog.  I’d like to say that I was cool and confident enough to have put it together in a matter of minutes without giving it a second thought. . . but I’d be lying.  I spent hours and even enlisted the help of my husband to get it just […]

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Over the past few weeks we have discovered a new home away from home.  A place where as soon as we walk in the door people greet us with a smile and call us by name.  If all three of us don’t walk through the door the question is posed. . . “Where is Chanelle?” […]

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Another day comes to a close and I am so exhausted I can almost feel the sweet softness of my pillow under my head.  My body wants to crawl into bed, close my eyes, and drift away to the silence of dreamworld. . . but I can’t. . . There is this other part of […]

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I used my voice today.  Well, my hands really.  Like so many others, I cast my vote.  In the chill of the morning I loaded the kids in the car and drove the 2 miles to our voting location.  I had prepped the kids the night before by telling them we would be voting and […]

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. . . no, not the T.V. show.  I’m referring to that real, sometimes awkward, sometimes beautiful, sometimes tumultuous relationship between brothers and sisters.  Raising a boy and a girl I often find myself watching Charlie and Chanelle and saying a silent prayer. . . please let them remain close.  This past weekend Charlie went […]

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