i love rainy days

For months, my mother has been totally dry. Something that has made all of our lives so much richer. She was able to leave the house, able to travel to Disney World, able to be a connected and social grandmother to my and my sister’s kids. Now that status has changed. My sister just called and told me that she…
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This year was very different for me. Usually on my birthday I’m very self-centered and concentrate on what I’m getting or what is being done for ME. However, this year, my husband came to me with a request for us to do something else that had absolutely nothing to do with my birthday at all and I didn’t have the…
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Over the years, toys have come and gone. Spider-Man, Buzz Lightyear, Woody the Cowboy, Power Rangers, and countless others that escape my memory at the moment. But one toy that has held on tightly to my boys’ imaginations for quite some time is Legos. They absolutely love Legos. We have a “secret” room, which is basically a small closet, and…
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You know what? I think this is a theme here because, if I’m not mistaken, we’ve also done doughnut math. Hmm. Anyway, last night the boys and I ran to the grocery store to pick up dinner and Ryan wanted to buy some cupcakes. They sell some that are “two-bite” cupcakes and they’re pretty cute so we picked up one…
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What exactly is friendship? Dictionary.com defines it this way: “The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.” and these words are synonyms: “harmony, accord, understanding, rapport.” It is at this point that I must ask the question, Can you be friends…
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