Freak Parade

I told myself I was going to get back to writing here regularly. Now it has been a week since I last wrote, and I can’t think of a single thing I want to write about. Which is kind of funny, because in person, I never shut up. I do enjoy hearing myself talk, but […]

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After a very traumatic birthday experience….The Girl is as good as new.
I really don’t have it in me to relive the actual birthday trauma in detail….let’s just say she spent the whole day in her room, puking…while 35 people partied in my backyard. My head exploded approximately 4,000 times, and we narrowly avoided another trip […]

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Not the stomach flu. Pneumonia. Yep. Four and a half hours in the ER, one shot in the butt, and three pukes later, we are home. The Girl is sleeping restlessly and I am praying her antibiotics make her feel well enough to have her party Saturday. She is not contagious, so we are good […]

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So The Girl has the stomach flu. Yes, she is sick quite a lot, thanks for noticing. She has pretty much always been a germ magnet….much to The Boy’s dismay. As usual, The Boy has evacuated the premises. Someone is throwing up? Go to Mamaw’s. Go directly to Mamaw’s. Do not pass go. Do not […]

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So today it has been exactly one year since my step-father, better known as Papaw, passed away. To celebrate his first “birthday” in heaven, The Boy and The Girl wrote a little about what they think heaven is like. Who knows…they may be right. And if reading this doesn’t make you smile, I question whether […]

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She will be five soon.
A Big Girl.
She has been having a difficult time figuring out what that means for her.
Tantrums. Tears. Attitude.
I keep reminding myself how difficult it must be to grow up. To try to discover out how to be your own person with only five years of experience.
So go on, Babygirl, and […]

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So we think The Girl may have chicken pox. A very mild case, but still enough to send her brother off the deep end. Any hint of illness at our house just freaks him the hell out. I considered not even mentioning it to him, but I needed to deposit her somewhere today while […]

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Mommy, where is Papaw again?
He is in heaven.
No, I mean where is his body? In the ocean?
Yes, in the ocean.
A few minutes pass…
Sophia sat crouching and watching water trickle down the gutter.
Mommy, where does all the water go? To the ocean?
Yes, it all gets to the ocean eventually.
She sprinkles some petals from her hand […]

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Why do I love this picture?
This was taken in a mirror in our dining room. My daughter is sitting on our dining room table. She appeared behind me as I was checking out my fancy new camera strap in the mirror. I started taking pictures, but couldn’t get one with both of us looking at […]

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Reaching yet another birthday and living to tell the tale has caused me to do some thinking. Pretty much since the age of 18, I have had nothing but contempt for the process of getting older. The weight gain, the wrinkles, the responsibility, the complete un-coolness that comes along with it. Why on earth […]

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