Yearly Archives: 2012

Monday afternoon Chad and his Dad loaded Charlie and Chanelle into the car and headed to one of the most exciting events of the year. . . The Cleveland Auto Show.  (Your heart rate just increased, didn’t it?) Unfortunately (she writes sarcastically), since Meadow is a bit young to go, I had to skip the […]

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It wasn’t on purpose.  I didn’t mean to do it.  Really, if you don’t know you are lying can it really be called a lie?  I think maybe it was more like ignorance.  I just didn’t know.  I was oblivious.  I mean, if boiling an egg without water didn’t clue me in, and sending my […]

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.” — Robert Updegraff Of all the lessons life has thrown my way, one ranks above the […]

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During the final moments of the evening, I lay in Chanelle’s bed with my 4 and 6 year old nestled on either side of me.  Tonight I could tell that Chanelle was extra tired as she buried her blonde locks as close to me as she could so even the tiniest light couldn’t pass through […]

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My eyes popped open to the xylophone sound of the alarm clock of my cell phone.  I stared at the numbers on the clock and attempted to clear the fog from my head. . .6:00.  I stared at the snooze button on the alarm as I participated in a morning debate with myself. . . […]

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