From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Last Thursday I packed the remaining items at 449 N. Bailey Street and watched silently as the moving truck rumbled down the street.  Inside the truck was the sum of my earthly possessions - squeezed into twelve feet of space in the back of the semi.  I don’t consider myself to be someone who is tied to material things; this move is [...]

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Today is Paul’s 5th birthday. At five years old my mama’s boy is needing his mama less and less. Paul once told me that a baby was like a butterfly emerging from it’s chrysalis. If so, I can’t wait to see where my baby’s wings will take him. There is so much more that I [...]

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Congratulations to Reiza. She is the winner of We Are Girls Who Love to Run by Brianna Grant. I’m confident that she and her girls will enjoy their new book.

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Thanks – Autumn, Lisa, Jacki and Courtney. We will miss you too. Hmm, I wonder if you might also know something about the forks in our front yard this morning? “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

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Paul adamantly denies his existence as a baby. It is an on-going debate. Last night we were having this conversation again and I asked Paul to explain where he came from. “I fell out.” “You fell out from where?” “Fell out of the ball.” “What ball?” “The ball in your tummy.” Apparently it is perfectly [...]

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The I Spy Memory Game from Briarpatch combines award-winning I Spy picture riddles with the classic game of Memory. I recently had the opportunity to review the I Spy Memory Game with Megan (7) and Paul (4). Both children are big fans of I Spy books from Scholastic so I was eager to see how [...]

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