In the first two weeks after Henry entered the hospital, we were told that he’d suffered both major types of brain injury – traumatic and hypoxic – , but that after he woke from the coma, he’d made it past the critical point. We all thought he was going to live. The online photo album [...]
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A big thanks to YoBaby for sponsoring this post and some others I will be sharing in the weeks ahead on the topic of feeding G and her siblings. CLICK HERE for more of this discussion. +++++ As the mother of five children, I thought I pretty much had the whole baby-feeding thing down by [...]
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Some people I know believe that they get regular messages from their higher power. I really don’t. But lately I can’t help but feel like God is trying to tell me something. And maybe He (She?) tried to deliver the message in some subtle or nuanced way, but because I sometimes don’t notice things until [...]
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Ever since that little incident a few months back – you know, that time I became trapped inside my Honda Odyssey minivan and barely escaped a raging flash flood, all while on my lunch hour from work? Yeah that one. Well, ever since then, I’ve been driving my my mother in law’s loaned – and [...]
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Like just about every other self-respecting female under the age of DEAD, I find actor o’ the moment Ryan Gosling to be more than a little bit attractive. He’s a cutie, for sure. But my favorite thing about Ryan Gosling isn’t his broody good looks, his appealingly tousled locks, or even his prodigious acting chops. [...]
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Here’s a short little interview I did with C and NC this weekend on their favorite topic. As you can see, they had recently been playing in the dirt. Note how NC wags her finger at C and makes her shush so that SHE can do the explaining. As for what that is C is [...]
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When we mothers and fathers are living in those those early, honeymoon years of parenting – that time in our lives when our children are still babies, or young children – our optimism for the futures that lie ahead for our obviously exceptional offspring is generally shimmering and boundless . In those first years of [...]
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I am going to start right out by admitting that I am kind of embarrassed to write about this topic. In fact, I’ve started and stopped discussing it publicly multiple times in recent months because I just don’t want to sound nuts. But I keep thinking about it, and there have just been so many [...]
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In the last few days, I suddenly realized that our family has a milestone coming up; next week, our giant sweetie of a dog, Leo will turn four years old. On the day four years ago when Jon and I brought an adorable Great Pyrenees puppy home to infant C, 10 year old E, [...]
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A week or two ago I was reading an interview with adorable and smart actress Michelle Williams, whose perfect pixie haircut I have long coveted with the fiery heat of a thousand hot suns, and in the interview, she explained that she keeps her hair short to remember the late Heath Ledger, whom she says [...]
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