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We’ve been fighting off colds here. We’re a pretty healthy family, and rarely get hard core sick, but this cold has been hanging out for a while… poor Sam has had a mild case of the sniffles for about a week and a half, and I think mine has been hanging on at least that …

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My birthday was yesterday. Thirty five is a big year. A take stock kind of year. A figure out where you’ve been, and where you want to go sort of year. And there were several moments yesterday when I was achingly aware of how blessed and fortunate I am. I was laying in bed, Marc …

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Sore throat, achy, just feeling bad… like all I want to do is curl up somewhere quiet and sleep and read, and have chicken soup brought to me all day long. And that’s just not going to happen. Especially because Sam feels pretty much the same way, so he’s requiring a lot more attention.

I found a new bread recipe, and Sam and I mixed up the dough this morning, it’s rising at this very moment. Jordyn and Sam are playing together in the other room, seem to be liking each other for the moment. These two have been together since Jordyn was ten weeks old, and they are …

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All is well in my world today – kids are happy and relatively healthy. Sam is coming down with a slight cold, I suspect, he was congested this morning, but seems fine now. I just spent the past three hours cleaning – and am happy to report that the house is not spotless, but clean …

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Okay, okay, I get it, you shouldn’t be giving a two year old his own cup of coffee. BUT in my defense, it made him stop screaming and crying (literally sobbing, repeating over and over – “please mama, please, me have oobies now, please!”).

I love Tuesdays. Still. There’s nothing special about today, but it’s a very peaceful, relaxed sort of day. Lots of laundry and cleaning, as per usual, and it’s cold and yucky outside. I miss spring, and bouncing out and over to the park, stopping for a bagel to feed to the ducks, pushing the boys …

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Jessie had her very first big girl sleepover last night. She’s been sleeping over people’s houses since she was about a year old, although it’s always been either my sister Mandi, my cousin Becky, my friend Annie’s, or my mother’s. Once, she slept at Marc’s parent’s house. But last night was a big girl sleepover …

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I’m already dreading my goal of heading out every damn day. It’s wicked cold out there… and quite honestly, I’m not in the mood to trek out into the wild blue yonder. But trek I shall, because it’s good for me and good for Sam. Had another fight with Marc last night over time spent …

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I’m just NEVER GOING TO SIT DOWN AGAIN. I’ve got to start the weaning process – it’s making me nuts. Sam is just nursing, nursing, nursing, 24/7. Every single time I sit down somewhere in the living room or at the dining room table, he runs over and tries to get me to nurse him. …

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