Looking for Advice: Boys and Potty Training
WARNING!This entry will be filled with poop, not unlike Logan's underwear, so if you're easily offended you may want to read something else. Maybe about kitties?I know they're 3 1/2 years old and you...
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Oh! Hello there!
So...how you doin'?What?! Do I really think I can just waltz right back in here just as easily as that without an explanation? Do I? DO I?!Um...I've been, you know...busy!There have been plantsPrairie...
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The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
just happens to also be my age. The age that I turned back in March.For my birthday, there was no cake and no party and no hullaballoo. I went to dinner with Eric and we made a quiet evening of it. A...
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Recipe: Triple Coconut Cupcakes (When Double Coconut Cupcakes just aren't...
What is it about coconut that you either love it or hate it? Some of the folks I know can't stand this nut, while my family and I are all for it.I suspect my Jamaican heritage is at play here, as well...
View ArticleI spoke to my father today
and the conversation went like this:Me: [Cheerful] Hi dad! [In the background, I can hear mom explaining who I am to dad.]Dad: [Breathing]Me: [Still cheerful] I just called to say happy Father's...
View ArticleThe Race Cross Country
My sister Cindy called me at 6 am on Monday morning, June 27th, and told me my dad was dying.Since he was in the final stages of Alzheimer's, he'd been dying for a long, long time, but this was it. She...
View ArticleThe Final Farewell
After a fast shower and a leisurely brushing of teeth (mine had grown a bit hairy during the long drive), we left Eric behind with the children and drove off to see dad at the nursing home. We were...
View ArticleDeath Rituals
Eventually, after a few more tears were shed, the whole family walked out into the garden to start dealing with the matter at hand. Phone calls to friends and family members were made. Discussion about...
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A Vigil for My Father
[I'm now back in Colorado, and after a week of getting the house and garden in order, I'm ready to finish the tale.]On Monday, July 4th, Dad was cremated.I can honestly say I don't remember what all we...
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The Beginning of a New Era
On Friday, August 12th we found out a single piece of information that would change the course of our family's future.The twins will meet the cutoff for kindergarten next year by three days.Suddenly,...
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What does Hatchet do with those "extra" three hours a day?
Well!Here it is, almost a month later from our first day of school and I haven't said a thing, have I?Once I dropped the kids off to school, I did what comes naturally to me: immediately jumped into a...
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One Month Later...The Completed Living Room and a few nice touches
It took me a month to sand, prime, and paint the living room, dining room and kitchen. A month filled with going up and down ladders, getting coated in 5 different colors of paint, and discovering that...
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Into the Earth
Today would have been my parents 45th wedding anniversary. My gift may be slightly macabre, but it's been rattling around in my head and freezing my hands for months. Here's what happened on July 6th,...
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The After Party
We returned to the church basement for the reception (Personally, I tend to see those as things you do after weddings, but I guess it was a reception, when you get right down to it.) and the starving...
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Catching Up: All of the things I didn't write about when I really should have...
Hey there! I know, my time for doing the 2011 Year in Review posting was soooo two weeks ago, yet here I am leaping onto the bandwagon. Or perhaps I'm just stumbling after it.Only time will tell.The...
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I Love You...You Make Me Crazy
There are so many things to remember that I am fast forgetting, I wanted to jot them down before they fade.It's always amazing just how fast the kids grow up, isn't it? How quickly their language...
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In Bloom In the Garden - Early May Edition
My mother and I were talking on the phone yesterday and she told me that she missed my blog. Clearly, I needed to get back to editing photos and writing again if even my mother was concerned! So here I...
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Caitlin Graduates
Another milestone has passed in Caitlin's childhood - she has graduated from elementary school.A funny thing about endings and me: apparently I'm a sucker for them. I was ecstatic sending her off to...
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Adventures on the Colorado Prairie
In early May, my girlfriend Misty asked me to run away with her for the weekend, go camping, and fix barbed wire fences.Of course I had to say yes. Who would refuse such an invitation?! Run off to the...
View ArticleSo you say you want to get in shape...
but you're not exactly sure how to start. You've tried before, but failed and are currently convinced that your body is magic and just won't lose the weight.I'm here to tell you, with some assistance...
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