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Vampire Obsessed

November 12, 2008 – 4:46 pm

I have a million and one emails to write but there’s something wrong with my account so they’ll have to wait yet another day. Instead, I have a confession to make…
I am a seventeen year old girl stuck in a stay at home mama’s body. I have read all four books in the “Twilight” series, [...]

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A lesson in control.

November 7, 2008 – 2:53 pm

Kade has finally calmed down and is quietly drawing pictures of outer space so I have a minute to vent. Sometimes I just don’t have what it takes to be a calm, patient, level-headed mama. Sometimes I am dangerously close to losing it. Today it very nearly happened.
All morning I was battling a massive headache [...]

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On the horizon.

November 4, 2008 – 3:41 pm

Standing in line at 6:15 in the morning, waiting nearly an hour to cast my vote, seeing neighbors and friends who showed up even earlier than I did, coming home to read blog posts like this one, sensing the shift, realizing that this is history…that I am a part of it, has made me very [...]

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Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2008 – 4:34 pm

It’s finally here…the day we’ve been waiting for all year, Halloween. To tell you the truth, it’s been rather anti-climatic. After our afternoon of trick-or-treating on Sunday, our night of pumpkin carving on Tuesday, our dorm-room candy crawl on Wednesday, Liv’s school party on Thursday, and our morning of Halloween festivities at the Children’s Museum [...]

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Princesses and vampires really do go together.

October 27, 2008 – 11:33 am

Never. Not once did I ever think my two-year-old daughter would choose to be a pink ball of pouf for Halloween. I did my best to persuade her to wear my childhood witch costume. When she insisted on being a princess, I tried to funk it up with cool tights and her pink Chuck Taylor’s, [...]

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Cancer.

October 26, 2008 – 10:06 pm

One word. A flood of emotion. Frightening. Indiscriminate. Relentless. Murderer.
It has struck again. My grandma, the matriarch of our family, the one who keeps us all together, one of the strongest women I know has been diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer. I haven’t blogged about it yet because we still don’t have all of the [...]

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Heavy.

October 20, 2008 – 10:01 pm

I’ve been working through some overwhelming emotions lately. Our family is dealing with devastating news and I can feel myself scrambling to hold the walls up before everything caves in on itself. There are things in life that will never make sense, no matter how hard you try to find a reason… I will decipher [...]

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Wanted: housekeeper.

October 16, 2008 – 3:17 pm

Every surface in my house is covered in either dust or dog hair due to my complete disregard for any and all housework over the last two weeks. Liv is napping, Kade’s watching some vintage “Caspar the Friendly Ghost” episodes, and instead of tackling the filth while I have a quiet hour or two, I’m [...]

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Thank you.

October 15, 2008 – 2:21 pm

The outpouring of support that I have received has blown me away. I am humbled and honored to have such a network of friends and family in my life. Each and every one of you has lifted me up with your kindness, empathy and encouragement.
Life isn’t easy and it’s rewards never come without hard work [...]

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Not what I expected.

October 13, 2008 – 11:03 pm

I trained for 16 weeks. I ran three 20 milers. I sacrificed countless hours of sleep and nearly every Saturday morning in preparation for one day, one race, one chance at 26.2 miles. It was all supposed to come together yesterday. It was supposed to be my reward, my day of glory, my proof that [...]

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