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A new synapse formed.
It occurred to me, as things do, while I was ironing my pillow cases that perhaps not everyone does this. Perhaps not everyone thrills to the crackling sound of the sizing as it sprays on the white... Continue reading »
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I slept with Buzz Lightyear.
And he cuddled like a mother ####### BOSS! I sometimes forget that he is still so little. He is so verbal and so wise beyond his years, but when it comes down to it he still wants to put on last... Continue reading »
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Heaven.
One of my favorite places in DC is the National Cathedral. My family will find this as no surprise as when we were in Rome I dragged them into every.single.church. and when we visited New York guess... Continue reading »
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Memories Captured.
I know Mother’s day is about spoiling mom (and for Mother’s Day I myself would like to act like a dad…sleep in, watch whatever I want and then have someone else get up with the baby... Continue reading »
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Oh Mother’s day….
Sigh. Today I went to my very first pre-school Mother’s Day Tea. I feel like I had a motherhood right of passage and it was adorable. Sometimes being a mother is absurdly beautiful. My little... Continue reading »
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Things I never thought I’d say.
And apparently I am not the only one who has said them, and ahem done them. Motherhood is weird y’all. I need to tell you all about Listen To Your Mother. How we filled the house, how we... Continue reading »
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feels like a hit to the gut…
Working on a post for Just Be Enough I happened to google the last time I was on stage and I found a video I had never seen before. The last play I did meant a lot to me. Written by a friend, it was... Continue reading »
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One week out…
To hold you over…a Huckleberry claps! By this time next week I will be relaxing and (hopefully) basking in the HUGE success that was DC’s very first Listen To Your Mother show. I’m... Continue reading »
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Time marches on…
We are feeding ourselves over here. It’s half awesome, half total disaster. Don’t you dare clear that plate before he is ready. Baby Brother will cut you if you take away his crushed Kix... Continue reading »
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More I wants…but this time I GET!
There was a time, back in the day, when I fancied myself a scrapbooker. That is to say I went crazy and bought all sorts of pretty paper and books and the stickers…Oh! The stickers. But, alas, no... Continue reading »
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my iphone died and then I fell in love with Kate Spade – Sunday Obsessions.
My iPhone met an anti-climactic end on Thursday. It simply closed it’s eyes and went to sleep, never to wake again. I suppose that’s how we all want to go, how we want our beloveds to go,... Continue reading »
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This week on The Today Show…
{my wedding day, the healthiest I have ever been} If you don’t follow me on twitter then perhaps you don’t know that I am obsessed with the Today Show. OBSESSED, I say. It is... Continue reading »
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Slow down, you move too fast!~
We’ve got to make this baby moment last. You guys? Huck is omgomgomgomgomg TEN MONTHS OLD! We are three weeks away from ELEVEN months and seven weeks away from ONE YEAR OLD (God willing,... Continue reading »
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I really need to do laundry more often…
Because look what I found in the basket. Thank goodness I read the directions: hand wash warm with Burt’s Bees then towel dry and kiss till giggles. done and done! Continue reading »
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In which my mother in law is groovier than me.
This past Saturday we gathered, friends and family, for my mother in law’s Seder. I love her Seders. First of all, who doesn’t love a religious ceremony where you lean to the left and... Continue reading »
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And to top it all off…THE CUTE.
Last year the news reported that a mama duck had brought her ducklings to hatch at National Geographic. As soon as TOTT and my Father in Law arrived home I pounced on them there are ducklings at Nat... Continue reading »
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Easter Egg Roll at The White House!
When The Boss was in utero we called him POTUS. Because, obviously. As he shows us his personality I believe the guys at the gym (who gave him his nickname and who I haven’t seen in ages... Continue reading »
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This one time at iVillage Band Camp
I don’t know about your high school, but at mine? The band kids were the WILDEST. And they were totally under the radar so they could like party like no ones business and never get a rep.... Continue reading »
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And then an angel appeared via twitter.
I was at the end of my rope. Our precious non-sleeping-who-once-was-a-great-sleeper Huckleberry was really, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally not sleeping. No more naps. Refusing to go down until 9 or 10 and... Continue reading »
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On raising white boys in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s murder.
It’s been a month and I am still rage filled whenever this young man’s, tracked down and slaughtered, name is mentioned. So, that’s about twenty thousand times a day. I simply... Continue reading »
