southern snowday

January 13, 2012

The call came last night at 9:45. I was watching TV upstairs and didn’t get up to get the phone. I saw that it was our county calling (the TV showing me who is calling = one of my most favorite inventions ever.) I had my cell phone, and the email usually comes simultaneously, so [...]

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my cat, the teacher

January 12, 2012

I’m a sucker for my cats. So I got them a water fountain because they really like to drink running water. And I’m pretty sure they hate it. Lulu kind of stared at it for a while. Then walked away. Finnegan stared at it. Then tried to attack it. That was my first clue that [...]

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Game On! update

January 11, 2012

I made it through the first week on the Game On! Diet. Sadly, I am only down .5 pounds which means I did not get any bonus points. However, I learned a lot. I started the diet two days early to make sure I could do it and to help plan my meals and drink [...]

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a dose of my own advice

January 10, 2012

Today has been a mind-bending kind of day. My head is in a whirl with a few too many all-encompassing ideas trying to grab hold. And then I open my own email to find a post I wrote just 2 weeks ago. Time to take some of my own advice and relax a little.  

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Game On!

January 2, 2012

I posted on Facebook yesterday that I was plowing my way through all the candy in our house (a lot) before starting my diet on Tuesday. A friend mentioned an article that says the most successful dieters don’t tell others that they are on a diet. The funny thing is I typed out that status [...]

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Queen of best intentions

January 1, 2012

I have the best intentions of playing that game right after dinner, and kicking the ball in the backyard right after laundry, and reading an extra story when we wake up, and practicing handwriting in a fun way. I have the best intentions. “Let me finish this work on the computer and then we can [...]

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End of December

December 30, 2011

It’s pretty bad when you can’t even remember your password to write a post. Ahem. That’s all I’m going to say about that. Nick is now 5. Five. Wow. In a way it seems like he’s been 5 for a while, but in other ways, it can still sneak up on you. If he’s five, [...]

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Monday morning

November 14, 2011

The weather today is beautiful. Warm, breezy, more than one could hope for in mid-November. But tonight, there will be rain. And rain always means the potential for water in our basement. We are learning to be proactive. (Sometimes being an adult stinks.) Mike mentioned he needed to blow the leaves out of the basement [...]

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chatty

November 10, 2011

Feeling a little chatty today. Ahem. I took Nick to Home Depot yesterday to buy a 2×4 to use as a balance beam. I got a chance to see some of the PT he does at school and much of it are things that we could easily be practicing at home, assuming I have them [...]

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Check it out

November 10, 2011

We have a shorter winter than many and that’s why some of us (me) live here. I’m sharing some places to hang out with the kids when it’s cold or rainy.  

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