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Happy Birthday, Baby Girl

Dear Miss T, The past year has flown by, and here we are again.   Today you’re two years old.  Today, we can’t even pretend that you’re still a baby.  You’ve made that transition to…well, a tiny person. Your personality is in full bloom and let me just say, WOW. You amaze me every day, […]

Seven

Wow.  Just…wow.  Another year has passed, and it’s time for me to bust out my serious cap and try and write another letter to my fabulous baby AE. Dear AE: You turn seven today.  And in all honesty, that just boggles my mind.  There’s nothing about you that’s little anymore.  Your long legs, loose teeth […]

Letting go; giving in

I think it might finally be time for me to admit that I’m not as young as I once was.  Yes, yes, I know.  I’m only thirty, it’s not like I’ve got one foot in the grave or anything.  But let’s face it.  Thirty may be the new twenty, but it isn’t the new eighteen.  […]

Goodbye House

On Saturday we went down to The Swamp to help my parents finish up their move into a rent house.  And I found it a lot harder than I expected to say goodbye to my old home.  We moved in before the end of my 8th grade year, some sixteen years ago.  A lot of memories were […]

And on this historic day…

Some times parenting really sucks.  The last few days have been…trying, as N mentioned over on his blog.  The weekend didn’t go according to plan at all (although I suppose I should be thankful, since the ORIGINAL original plan was for N to be working all weekend and me to play the single parent), I […]