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“I just don’t want to go to school.” Meadow and I were pulling out of the parking lot after dropping Charlie and Chanelle off at school.  It was a strange comment coming from my fairly independent 3-year old who has been talking about school next fall with far more excitement and enthusiasm than I have. […]

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Growing up they lived just over a mile from us.  We called them Mama and Big.  We still call them Mama and Big.  Grandparents of the best kind. . . grandparents who knew us.  Much like our kids have now, our grandparents were a part of our everyday life–family that extended beyond the walls of […]

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I am the middle child of three kids.  (Big sigh for the forgotten middle children.) My sister is four years younger than I am and my brother is two years older–identical to the age gap of Charlie, Chanelle, and Meadow.  My brother, sister and I had what I would call a “typical” sibling relationship.  You […]

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One of the first posts ever written in this blog was about him.  I knew I would write it even before I wrote it.  It came to me while I was on a morning run, thinking about life and processing how much our world had changed in a blink of an eye.  The post was […]

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This morning my sister and I were exchanging emails regarding an upcoming trip we are taking to Florida.  We are going down to visit my grandparents and introduce Meadow to them for the very first time.  I suspect that meeting Meadow will be an experience, because, well, Meadow is an experience. I digress. Ashley and […]

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