You should already know this…

Dear Random-Father-Grocery-Shopping-At-Safeway-Tonight,
Please do not encourage your daughter to wash her hands off using the mister that’s spraying directly over the broccoli I’m planning on getting. Just because it’s water, doesn’t mean it’s meant for washing hands.
As for the rest of you…please tell me this was an isolated incident. My faith  in mankind is having serious [...]

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retrospect

When my second brother ( I have 5) was about 2 or 3, he would repeatedly vocalize any action he was doing. You’d tell him to go hide for hide and go seek, and he’d put a couch cushion over his face and say “Hide, hide, hide, hide.” Not all the time, just often enough to make [...]

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Baby’s First Roly-Poly

or rolli-polli, or rolie-polie, or…whatever. I figure its a pretty non-technical name, so you don’t have to worry about getting it exact. It’s part of the fun of the english language really.
We were playing in the grass when I found one and then I held it for her and let it crawl up her arm. [...]

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random

Violet has a booster seat/highchair now, so she sits at the table with us during dinner. I made her some spinach/banana/rice cereal stuff.  Tonight we all held hands and prayed before the meal; AJ’s big hands, Violet’s tiny chubby hands, and my medium-sized hands. The first of many.
I bought paint today. So excited. The guest bathroom [...]

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this reminds me…

my bedroom is a mess. M-E-S-S. This reminds me of a goat named Pammy.
Goats are smart…forget dolphins or monkeys, goats are the possibly the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom.  When I was little, we lived on an old farm, with an older house. Everything about that house was like a mini-time capsule to the [...]

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Playdate

Today was Violet’s first official playdate. And so it starts.  I feel like such a “soccer mom” saying that. Truthfully, playdates at this age are little more than a chance for the moms to have someone else entertain their baby for once. Violet and Isla seemed more interested in what they could do to each [...]

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I need these on Post It notes…

I’m thankful I get to drink filtered water every day.
I’m thankful my daughter is healthy.
I’m thankful we live in a nice house–better than the majority of the world.
I’m thankful we have so many good friends and family.
I’m thankful my husband loves me.
I’m thankful for accessible healthcare.
I’m thankful for our car.
I’m thankful that I get to be [...]

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I probably should have stopped her…

but she was having so much fun!
Today Violet ate a piece of tulle–otherwise known as the kind of fabric used in wedding veils. It was a smallish piece that she stuffed in her mouth before I could catch her, and she had quite a time swallowing it but I was pretty sure she couldn’t choke [...]

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I think the tooth fairy skipped our house…

Violet still has no teeth. nada.
New Rule (for everyone): Just Because the Carpool Lane is Not the Other Other Fast Lane, Doesn’t Mean it’s the Other Other Slow Lane.  I’m just saying.
You ever think up new things and wish you could make your ideas a reality? Like flying cars, for instance. Mine? Fart Bells. Thats right, [...]

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Sunday is a fun day for playing in the sun day

except that it rained as soon as we got out of church.
anyway. After church was over, AJ and I were planning on going out to lunch and wanted to see if any of my siblings wanted to come too. Funny thing–since my parents weren’t there and they would be paying for themselves, they weren’t interested.
side [...]

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