Happy Birthday to Hannah

My day three years ago actually started two weeks before that… (Warning: birth story following) I woke up on Easter morning, nearly nine months pregnant, the day after my sister’s wedding, to a little trickle that sure felt like my water breaking. I got up, more water. Then I had some bloody show. Anytime I [...]

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Everyone’s Doing It

OK, so this is my New Year’s post. The idea of a resolution at the beginning of the year is a little funny to me. Because, after all, shouldn’t we be working on our lives year round? On the other hand, the beginning of a new year is a great time to think about life, [...]

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More Cute Pictures

Our little Audrey is getting so big. Audrey and my youngest sister Amy. (Amy has mono and wasn’t feeling too hot) Hannah Kay Hannah and Moses are buddies.

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Santa Comes to Black Forest

Tonight we had one of my favorite experiences in a while. *Truth in advertising statement: We tried to do too many things today. This led to cranky kids, rather burnt out parents, late dinner, and a few things I wish I could do over. It was not a perfect day, far from it. However, I [...]

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Thanksgiving Dinner

Dinner was a smashing success, I must say. I should have followed my instinct and turned the heat up on the sweet potatoes so they were a little softer, and it was difficult to have everything more than just lukewarm by the time it was on the table, but it was….delicious. And completely gluten-free! Turkey, [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in [...]

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Quiet day

I suppose it’s the calm before the proverbial storm, but today is a quiet day. There are tiny snow crystals falling silently out my picture window. All my usual blogs to read are relatively quiet with holiday preparations. I need to do dishes, bake, clean my kitchen, and vacuum today. The three inches of snow [...]

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Thanksgiving

A lot of people hate it. It’s one of my favorites. I think I like it so much because it’s simple. Eat food, be together with people you love, be thankful. No presents, no deep spiritual meaning that you feel like you somehow miss in the trappings of the celebration, just be thankful. I have [...]

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Thanksgiving

The Gluten-Free Girl has once again written a beautiful, helpful Thanksgiving blog. I love her attitude toward having to be gluten free. Rather than seeing it as deprivation, she is grateful to be well, and she does gluten free in such a delicious way that no one will miss the gluten.

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Oh joy, oh rapture!

Audrey’s nose is not running today. I had just about given up hope that it would ever stop again. We have been running the air purifier for two days now, and apparently it’s working. I never would have guessed that this house would make my kids sick. Yuck. I suppose maybe they haven’t been contagious [...]

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