My posts have been scanty and I apologize.
I am mentally reorganizing my blog intent. I think I will be untangling a couple of threads so that I can focus more on specific topics, like Down syndrome, the parenting ball o’ wax (as artist momma to special needs, twins, large family life), and maybe something else.
I’ll […]

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A new week, a new month, a new look. Do I need an excuse? Pardon the quirks today. I will have things back to business as usual soon.

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Saturday afternoon already. I’m sitting and watching my daughters sleep, because Jules woke up and will only continue her nap if I am in the room. I’m grateful she went back to sleep. They were both awake at 6:44 AM. Dex and the boys have been out all morning. Dex called to inform me that […]

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Tonight we finished watching the first (only, to date) season of “Little Mosque on the Prairie”. It started out a little stiff, but it loosened up as it went along. I enjoyed it. I’d heard about the show on NPR some months ago - it’s set in a small town on the Canadian prairie, focused […]

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Let me take care of a couple of smaller things. I hate leaving odds and ends around the house - a pile of Edward’s probably unwanted drawings here, some stray pieces of toys there. I do it constantly, but I don’t like it. Likewise, a few items are cluttering my blog and it’s a good […]

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My head is a tangled ball of yarn today. Not in a bad way… or maybe? I just have a lot on my mind. Plans for summer - I should be making massive, page-long lists of what we need to pack for our week to Florida and our month in Colorado. I have a bunch […]

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To all the people affected by the tornado that devastated Greensburg, Kansas, to those in all of Kiowa and Stafford counties, and especially to the families of those who were lost, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

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Yesterday I broke my cardinal laundry rule - I did some. See, a while back I realized that the only way to keep me from feeling like I am continuously running the washing machine is to enforce a rest period in our never-ending cycle of clean - diry - clean - dirty. Weekends are my no-laundry […]

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This morning, about 90 minutes after I set up the coffemaker and switched it on, I had a slight lull in the madness and realized I hadn’t had my first sip of the day. I reached for the pot and poured myself a steaming mug of… huh? What’s this hot, clear liquid?
Yeah. You know you […]

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I’m sure Dex thinks of himself as the only Who fan in our house, but he’d be wrong. For Christmas when I was 16, my folks, at my request, gave me a cassette of The Who’s “Face Dances” album. I can see myself standing in the sunlit dining room, listening to it through the headphones […]

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