September 2009

The Original Little E

September 30, 2009

Little E came for a visit over the birthday party weekend and if you remember from my last post about Little E, she’s a little bit chatty.  The last time she was here she actually went hoarse from talking so much.  She is full of energy and you never know what she’s going to say [...]

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Birthday Party!

September 28, 2009

 Balloons + Cake = Happy Baby Preparing for a birthday party isn’t for the weak.  Luckily, we decided to keep it simple.  Sort of simple — except for the decision to sew our party decorations.  Sewing a banner would have been much easier if my sewing machine hadn’t broken on Saturday morning.  That’s how we roll at the [...]

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This week, last year or Pregnant Forever

September 23, 2009

Everything about me last September was round.  I looked like I was carrying various sizes of playground balls in my dress.  I could press into my ankles & make funny designs.  I was 39 or 40 weeks pregnant in the photo above.  It was taken a couple days after the midwife worked her voodoo magic and [...]

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Daddy’s Little Sideline Coach

September 21, 2009

I think I have a wild one on my hands. Last Thursday we had a playdate with another baby from church.  We might need to find another church.  Baby G is four weeks older, five pounds heavier, and overall a bigger baby.  Babycakes has been walking since the second week of August and this poor [...]

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Staying Focused

September 19, 2009

Who else is having a hard time staying focused?  Life with a one year old is challenging.  I feel like I can never get caught up on anything — laundry, dishes, toys, & projects.  For example, on Thursday, while I tried to load the dishwasher, she stole the english muffins from the bread drawer, dragged [...]

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Brotherhood

September 15, 2009

  There is a destiny that makes us brothers, no one goes his way alone; all that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own.  – Edwin Markham :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::  It’s not about the game.  It’s not about the sport.  It is about the young men and the relationships they build with each [...]

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Monday Morning Quarterback

September 14, 2009

Everyone’s a critic & when your team loses, those critics become Monday Morning Quarterbacks.  We should have passed more.  We should have done this, done that, & surely we would have won.  My husband works 85 hours a week.  He sacrifices time with his family and works his tail off to win games, to keep [...]

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Abundance

September 11, 2009

09.11.09 The word of the day is Abundance. I read a blog post today by a mother in Kansas — she is exhausted, she is beat down by the world, in fact she “wants a sabbatical” from her life.  We all feel that way from time to time, but that’s the moment when we need [...]

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The things you shouldn’t say…

September 10, 2009

Hold your tongue.  If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.  There are often things that I want to say, but can’t or shouldn’t because…  well, because Jiminy Cricket tells me that I might get beat up for saying the things that I think sometimes.  Okay, maybe not “beat up” [...]

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Where Did the Baby Go?

September 8, 2009

It won’t be like this for long… Do you know that Darius Rucker song?  Just hearing the song in my head brings me to tears — big, weepy tears.  I could just die when he sings, “… one day soon that little girl is gonna be all grown up and gone.”  This is precisely why I [...]

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