Yearly Archives: 2012

“It feels like it must be the middle of summer”, I just said to Chad.  I quickly scan my brain, what is the date? I laugh at myself when I realize it’s still May.  How is that possible? I will admit, I’m as bad as school children (or teachers) when it comes to three day […]

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It has been a girl kind of week in our house.  While Charlie was off doing his big-boy-Kindergarten- graduate-thing, the girls (the girls. . . I don’t think I’ll ever tire of saying that.) and I enjoyed some extra time together, sans testosterone.  Chanelle and I closed out the final moments of our “extra” girl […]

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It happens every time.  Without fail, every time I do it. . . it happens.  The alarm sounds and I glance at the clock. . . 5:40 a.m.  For a moment I bury my head back into my pillow surrendering to exhaustion.  As soon as my eyelids squeeze shut and I feel the comfort of […]

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You know that feeling you get when you finalize a date for a specific event and then you write it in pen on your calender because you know that nothing, absolutely nothing, is going to get in the way said event?  And from the time you write it on the calender you are so excited […]

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This little bundle of  wildflowers has been wooing me for weeks.  Each time I glanced out our kitchen window I spied them on the outskirts of the woods behind our house.  It was impossible not to notice their bright, happy color set against the dark rich greens that have overtaken the space between the woods […]

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