Enclave

That’s the word of the day, folks: Enclave.
It’s a distinct territory or social unit within the boundaries of another territory.
Besides the fact that it’s an awesome sounding word, and should really be reintroduced into daily conversation, this word makes me think of home. It’s that place that only belongs to you and a select few [...]

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To Do:

suck the helium out of your daughter’s old birthday balloons and sing to her. She may be indifferent to the tonal changes in you voice, but I promise you’ll get a kick out of yourself.
So apparently, there’s this place socks go to. I’m not sure where it is, or how they get there, but somewhere [...]

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Childhood Revisited

One of the best parts about being a parent is that you get to do all the things that adults are too old for but are still great fun.
Case in point: bubbles. Need I say more? This afternoon I got a bubble wand at Target and when AJ and I got home we took Violet [...]

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Best Buds

Right now, AJ and Violet are playing hide-and-seek via Violet hiding AJ’s face under a shirt and ripping it off when he says, “Where’d Daddy go?” Earlier, they were practicing and perfecting their fake belly laughs.
She’s in a pretty good mood for just having a nebulizer shoved in her face for 10 minutes. She’s pretty sick [...]

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Here’s to my day

Here’s to my sibling that wrote “Hi” on my windshield with pieces of tortilla.
Here’s to the man out walking with a walkman and headphones.
Here’s to my daughter who stole her friend’s teething cookie and put the whole thing in her mouth till it dissolved.
Here’s to the little boy at the grocery store that made my [...]

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Great things that come in 4’s

A four leaf clover
The Beatles
The Indiana Jones series
The Gospels
Four horsemen of the Apocalypse
North, South, East, West
Four chambers in a heart
Four seasons of the year
The number of movements in a symphony
Four suits of playing cards
The Fantastic Four
A quartet
Players needed in the game of Foursquare
The Libby brothers.
That’s right–Violet is still the only girl cousin. My sister-in-law had her [...]

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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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You Tell ‘Er!

Today when Violet and I were at my parents, I had been teasing my little sister Shown about being a “stinker” (figuratively). She was tickling Violet and I said to Violet, “Say “No, No Stinky Showny!” To which Shown replied, “That’s Aunt Stinky Showny to you! Wait…”

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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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