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Well, I have been busy. My brilliant sister in law led me to Substack, a site where my blog can expand and grow in the way I have been hoping. This way I can add more goodies to the posts like a podcast with my sister, videos and book recommendations. Instead of hunting for work
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Remember those little surprises? The ones I said were harder to come by as we get older? Well, today one dropped in on me. Rob and I spent the day taking the littles around Atlanta. Hustling them in and out of the car. Then back home to watch a movie and off to bed. Then
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Weldon was stung by a bee the other day. Before it happened. She had no fear. She ran into the yard chasing the giant bumble bees around, laughing and pointing. “Bee! Bee!” And then she got stung. The shock and horror on her little face was heartbreaking. She had trusted the world completely before that.
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I feel like the older you get, the less likely the happy surprises happen. I am an endlessly naive optimist. I mean I have a right to be. I fell head over heels in love with my college crush and twenty five years later we got married and have two beautiful babies. But I also
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It’s that time of year again. My social feeds are full of happy beautiful girls sitting in perfect well coordinated dorm rooms. Monogrammed pillows and perfectly matched bedding. Photos of bid day celebrations. Tiny girls crying tears of joy being hugged by other tiny girls, perfectly mussed hair and bright white grins. Then there are
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What is it when you go all in on everything all at once, but the timing seems catastrophic? Whatever it is. I’m doing it. I’m still home with the tornados. We are on the mend but one of us (it’s the two year old) is definitely making her frustrations known. Often. And now, at a
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I’m someone who can take a tiny snowflake of good news and make it into a snow day. That’s a good thing. As a writer I think I have to take all the good and bright things and cherish them when I can. There are a few things floating around that may give us reason
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We have Covid again. It got all of us and we are miserable. But I am home with all the girls and while we all sniffle, we sit in Weldon’s room, Daisy asleep and snoring on my chest, talking about Halloween costumes. We make pancakes that Weldon feeds to the dogs and I ignore the
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Sometimes I get sea sick. Not really sea sick. I’ve never really been in a boat long enough to actually get sea sick. But I feel like I have been on a boat for the past several months and I’m wobbling around trying to get back on real footing. Two under two. Rob back at
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There is a ride at Six Flags that Heather and Anna Kate loved. I couldn’t wait to be brave enough to ride it. The Mindbender. And I did eventually. I have been thinking a lot about Mindbender lately. My life has been similar. Unexpected and somewhat dangerous. Not sure what’s next then you realize everything