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Peanut strikes again
and she said to me:
“At first when I looked at your face I thought that was a scar, but then I looked at it again and realized that it’s just a big, brown bag under your eye.”
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Parent-Teacher Conference
We had our first P-T conference on Tuesday. I figured things were going really well at school, but I just kept bracing myself for the bad news. Like, “Mr. and Mrs., Your child has not been to class in a week.” or “We found this (holds up kilo of drug X) [...]
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Home Study
I don’t know how many of you know that BS and I want to adopt one day. Now you know. That’s the short story. We have all these criteria and according to my calculations, that I know are accurate, we need to start soon. So a couple of days ago I mention to BS that [...]
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The story of Noah: Part 3
Please read Parts 1 and 2 before reading this post. Once photos are posted, this entry will contain images that might be disturbing to some.
We gave blood, just in case. There were two pints, more than enough hopefully, set aside just for him. Then he needed his pre-op blood work.
It took four grown [...]
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The story of Noah: Part 2
Please start with The story of Noah before reading this entry.
Weeks passed and the ridge was still there. I had felt his head so many times by this point I wondered if I were now imagining the ridge because it became so common. I decided it was not a big deal (“maybe [...]
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Peanut & Bubba in Montana
Our children knew we were going on a vacation to Montana. Bubba was especially excited. He was jumping up and down and singing, “We’re going to Montana!” He was so giddy and chatty he couldn’t even eat his breakfast. Bubba was excited about riding a tractor and horses and getting to see [...]
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Starting young.
My little Peanut was upstairs taking a bath while I was downstairs scraping carpet adhesive off the basement floor. Let me tell you, you do not know what fun is until you’ve been on your hands and knees scraping carpet adhesive off a concrete floor. Over the scraping sound I could hear the [...]
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Peanut’s Dance Recital
We were told that there is no flash photography allowed during the show, so I took pictures at home, which only turned out okay. Before we left I asked Peanut if she was nervous. She said, “Nope.” Then I hoped that me asking that wouldn’t make her nervous. She was so excited, I think it [...]
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Practice Makes Perfect
Last night after dancing in the kitchen with her daddy, my little Peanut decided she wanted to practice walking down the aisle with her daddy, him giving her away, then officiating. I told her I would sit down and practice crying.
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Aww, I want one!
My husband and I have known for some time how many children we would have and have said many prayers asking the Lord how large our family should be. Two natural, one adopted. Those numbers were far from the five that we both originally stated we wanted when we were first married.
I had a good [...]
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