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Elise came in from her quick jaunt outside this morning and declared that she wasn't playing outside because it was too cold! "Let me see," says Will as he pokes his head out the door. "It is cold out there." "Really," I
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Phone Calls and Errands: -Called landlord, explained that we now have no mailbox thanks to someone who decided to take a joy ride and knock down 6 mailboxes on Friday night. -Went to post office, explained that we have no mailbox. What should I do? Filled out hold form. There
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#1. Elise: "Where is my pencil sharpener? It's missing and I need it to sharpen my pencils." Me: "Well, think through where it might have been put." Elise: "It is always put back in the same place - in my craft box."
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"Mom, Mom, do you want to see my game? It's called 'me do this and then this.' You play like this." Will sticks a balloon in his mouth and blows air until the balloon pops out of his mouth. He gives me a smile
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This day is an example of how I can find laughter in my kids antics even when they are completely misbehaving. The morning started well enough. I woke when I heard the boys begin playing in their room. I kept dozing instead of getting up to work out. When I
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Seth is 19 months old, but we were behind on vaccinations and missed his 18 month well child visit, so we took him in today. He weighed 24 lbs 12 oz and was 32 1/2 inches tall. That puts him in the 90th percentile for height and 25th percentile
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Elise Logic Elise found a turtle the other day. She played with it all day and begged me to let her keep it in a box. I told her no, and warned her that it would probably be gone by morning. As expected, the next morning she ran out early
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I thought I'd treat you to a tidbit of family conversation: Will - "Wash gone? Wash gone?" Me - "Will I don't understand the words you are saying?" Will - "Wash gone? Wash gone?" Me - "Oh, you mean
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No matter how much I tried to convince myself that I would be just as good at writing things down with my 4th child as I was with my 1st, it hasn't happened. In fact, I currently am missing the calendar that I wrote down Seth's
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We officially moved in to our rental house on Saturday. It will take many weeks I am sure to unpack the piles of boxes that line the walls, but it is live-able at least. Each time now we head back home after errands or other short trips Will asks: "
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I am trying to come to terms with moving from this house we have lived at now for almost 9 years. Despite the fact that we've been trying to sell it for several of those years, it still doesn't seem real that I will be leaving
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It snowed all day. The kids begged and begged, so we finally made a short excursion out into it. It was still coming down pretty heavy. John was cleaning off the car in an attempt to run some errands. Thankfully he was able to get out and do everything we