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Let me hold that for you…
She held my fingers so tight when she was born, but as she gets older and loses those infant reflexes, I love to see what she will grab onto next! Some favorites are: Her own hands! (prayer hands)...
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Chelley Who?
Sometimes I forget that I wasn’t a mom 5 months ago. And that I wasn’t pregnant 38 ½ weeks before that. In fact, I ran a half marathon before I knew I was pregnant (again), and I ran the CVS 5k with...
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My apologies
As I sit here too late at night to think, I wonder: where has my time has gone? Like any new mom, I am tired. But I am not tired because Addie doesn’t sleep. I am tired because I don’t sleep. My mother...
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The Joy of Family
While home for Thanksgiving, we celebrated my nephew’s first birthday. My car isn’t this awesome! It was an amazing party, with the theme of ducks! I know my sister was stressed about it all, but she...
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Sleep With Him
Yesterday 20 elementary school children, in a small town in Connecticut, woke from their slumber to dress for school. Some chatted with their parents or siblings about Christmas coming soon. Some...
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You’re Magic
It’s no surprise I think my baby girl is the most amazing human to ever exist. She is, to me, magic. In the days after Friday’s tragedy, I find myself feeling more blessed and emotional than usual...
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The First Noel
It was Addie’s FIRST Christmas! I was beyond over-joyed in the days ahead. My heart, still heavy from Sandy Hook, was looking forward to seeing the joy and excitement in my baby girl’s eyes. We went...
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A is For Adelaide. Book One.
I am so excited to read this to Addie every night, and I want to share it with you. It’s no great classic, but it’s all my love for Addie rolled into this book… and I hope it’s just the beginning. No,...
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So This is Love?
This week’s prompt in the Mom Before Mom series truly struck me: Do you remember your first romantic thoughts? How old were you? Who was your first crush? It’s the month of love so fill us in on how...
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Marvelous Monday!
Good morning! I hope everyone got themselves dugout from the Blizzard of 2013, incredibly inappropriately named Nemo, and their power back on! It was a cold one here, and once the house went below 50*,...
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Would you like peanuts?
As if I haven’t mentioned this before… I LOVE these Mom before Mom prompts. They bring me back to some fantastic times in my life, as well as reliving and remembering that sometimes life just isn’t...
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A year…
Last year I was sure I’d lost all control of my bladder. This year, my tear ducts sprung a leak. Where is my baby? But really… on April 15, 2012, I could have sworn I was peeing my pants. Happily, that...
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Marvelous Monday
And so Monday begins… Tragically, the actor who played Finn on Glee, Cory Monteith, passed away Saturday. This is not the first or last (potentially) drug related death of a celebrity, and while so...
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Some Call it Luck *Trigger*
While at the LPA National Conference in DC, I attended a few workshops, one of which landed on the controversial topic of limb lengthening (ELL). While my post is NOT intended to be medical advice, it...
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Marvelous Monday
This weekend was a blast!!!!! I am SO thankful for my inlaws and their never-ending patience! Living on a street that is great for yardsales, my mother-in-law and I decided to unload our stuff before...
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Filled with Thanks
Of course it’s the time of year to be filled with such amazing feelings, almost overwhelmingly, coming back to thanks. With the help of so many, we made change… and I finally saw it in person. I don’t...
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Marvelous Monday 2014!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Now that’s out of the way, onto our usual MM post (thankful, dwarfism, random)… Hold onto your hats. It’s gonna be a long one! This week I am thankful for the 2 weeks Addie and I have...
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Marvelous Monday
And, we’re back! I hope all enjoyed the superb owl… I was cheering for the Eagles (ha… birds… get it? No? Ok… I’m done being punny). So, after a beautiful week last week and a ridiculously warm...
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Approved
I just want to say how very sorry I am that you have to endure such ignorance for simply defending your values. Whether or not anyone agrees with political correctness, it sure doesn’t harm them to buy...
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Mother
It’s such a simple word. moth·er ˈməT͟Hər/ noun noun: mother; plural noun: mothers a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth verb verb: mother; 3rd person present: mothers;...
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