…and the rest is history

1.  At work.  Monday I left at 6 a.m. to take J to Grandma and Grandpa’s and didn’t get home until after a yearbook “party”–that was after 9 p.m. when you take into account the time I spent lugging the garbage to the end of the driveway.  The rest of the week was shorter, but…
2. I’ve chained [...]

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This is what…my third or fourth yearly post about the beginning of school?  Every year at about this time I begin wondering how I used to do it all those other years–of course, all those other years, I did do it, I just don’t remember.
It doesn’t help that I’ve also scheduled a full summer’s list [...]

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J’s sitter is a fellow shutterbug and taught my child to say “Cheese!” whenever he sees a camera nearby. Since I’m a photographer who likes the no cheese variety child, I was just a teeny bit unnerved to learn his new trick this spring.
Until now.  This is one of the best shots I’ve gotten of [...]

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Stacy’s theme at The Land of K.A. this Thursday is eyes, and since I find it difficult to follow the rules, you’ll have to listen a bit while I try to explain how I explain away my little rule-bending exercise.
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Between indepth phone conversations (as indepth as you can be with children on each end giggling, then shrieking); forays out into the wide, wild yard to push the grinning toddler on the swing and, later, wash dog poo off his bare feet; and a less-than-calm dinner featuring half-masticated chicken nuggets and a real, live, human milk-spouting [...]

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We’re working on this kid pretty hard.  I’ve been trying to brainwash him that my music is the best–he’s been able to headbang since the age of 14 months. His father, of course, is trying to imprint his own musical sense of style on him (and what that may be, I can’t define.  I’ve heard [...]

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For a few moments there this week, I felt a little like a top, spinning and spinning and spinning while the rest of the world smeared into a giant blur. 
It was a fun week, though, highlighted by that daily push to blog and create and, well…BE.  Sometimes, though, I feel like I’m living a double [...]

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