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Snow!
Finally! We have waited all winter for today! It seems like all we have heard about this winter is all the snow the rest of the country is getting. Snow in places like Texas and Louisiana, but we kept getting missed. The kids were starting to despair of ever getting to sled and play in
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Happy Husband
All is right with the world tonight… The Steelers won the conference (AFC? I should really know this. LOL!) championship game and are on their way to the Super Bowl! Even better, Court got to watch the game on a big screen while eating chicken wings. Oh, what bliss! 😉
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My dearest friend
is lying in a hospital bed tonight, her body fighting off a post-op infection. She has been away from her eight children for almost a week, including her little Johnny who is just two months older than my little guy. Usually, so full of energy and always full of faith, right now she is sad
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Oh Christmas Tree
Can I just say, "I love my Christmas tree!"? Really, I just love my tree. We have been packing up "Christmas" now that it is Ordinary time. The tree stills stands in all its glory in the corner of the living room by the fireplace. It is just so beautiful, especially at night, when all
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It figures
The day I run out of disposable diapers (my little Christmas present to myself!), the two year old ends up with diarrhea. :-( Well, at least cloth diapers don't leak like disposables. What's another load of laundry, or two? Time to get serious about potty training!
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Cookie day!
Every year we go to my mom's for Cookie Day. We just barely squeezed it in this year, not getting there until the 23rd. Grandmommy makes most of the dough first so we just need to bake and decorate. Our favorite is the gingerbread cookies, of course. The kids like to use the cookie cutters
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The Christmas tree outing
It was cold this year when we went out to find the perfect tree! We had considered buying a fake tree this year, especially since they were all on sale by the time we went tree shopping. But we love a real tree so decided to at least take a look at what was left
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A Christmas Eve Memory
Right about this time last year, after getting everyone else ready for Christmas Eve Mass, I put my five day old baby on the couch to change him one more time before we left. The little dear let loose as soon as I took off his diaper, all over my skirt and his outfit! Of
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The December Birthday Crew
Court and I had fun singing "Happy Birthday to half our Kids!" 😉