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Well it is the first weekend in December & there is just a touch of snow on the ground here. The fields are still pretty bare though there are a couple inches of the white stuff in the yard. It has been cold here but we haven’t gotten the snows storms yet. I’m sure that [...]
On Friday a milestone was reached…mostly nobody noticed except a few close family & friends. They woke up, looked at their calendars & decided that it was a good time to haul out the jet packs for the commute to work & school. What the rest of the world was blissfully unaware of was that […]
Continue Reading → Life has an odd way about it. The threads that weave our existence are varied in color & texture yet there are so many similarities among us. The foundations of our experiences my happen at different stages but celebration, mourning & the emotions that come with them are universal. Family (in its many forms) is […]
Continue Reading → This past weekend we attended my family reunion in New Ulm, MN. We’ve had the Lee family (my maternal grandmother & her brothers et al) reunion as long as I can remember. I talked about it in this post. We haven’t gone in the past few years as it was a long […]
Continue Reading → Last week was the regional fair. There were a lot of musical acts performing & we decided to check out the Friday night concert. Lifehouse was the main act with The Spill Canvas as the opening act. The Spill Canvas is a local band that I was just introduced to a […]
Continue Reading → When we last saw our heroine she was lying in an extremely hard birthing bed on day 3 of being induced for the health of both Baby & momma. As we resume the doctor has decided to break the water in hopes of speeding up the labor & subsequent delivery. It was apparent that I […]
Continue Reading → As you may or may not already know, I gave birth on June 25th, 2010. I’m going to start at the beginning of the road to delivery with June 23rd. I had been having problems with my blood pressure for the last month so the doctor was having me in twice a week for non-stress […]
Continue Reading → So here’s the deal…eight is rather a magic number in my family. My dad is one of 8 kids (2 girls, 4 boys, 2 girls); I am one of 8 kids (2 girls, 4 boys, a girl & a boy) and now my child is going to be one of 8 grandkids (2 boys, a […]
Continue Reading → While I’m assuming anybody who knows me knows that I am pregnant I haven’t really talked much about being pregnant. Partly because life (as you well know) has been a crazy disaster of insanity but also because I don’t want to bore ya’ll with the minutiae of the pregnancy. I figure if you call yourself […]
Continue Reading → When I met Hubby it was one of those things that you know at the time are going to affect the rest of your life. I was proven correct in that within a few short months. By the time we had known each other for a year we were engaged & had 6 months to […]
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