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I haven't posted here in a long, long time, but I had to come back today. My big goofy boy is gone. We had 12 1/2 wonderful years together. My 5-year-old daughter is devastated to lose her walking buddy. He was doing amazingly well until this past weekend and then just seemed to decide that he...

She's now 2 weeks old (would be 33 weeks gestation) and hit the 4 pound mark yesterday. She's starting to nurse semi-productively. She still needs the feeding tube, but they can reduce the amount significantly when I'm there to nurse her. We'll probably be able to start introducing a bottle...

I haven't checked in here for a couple weeks. And it was a couple of weeks that were both terrifying and mind-numbingly boring at the same time. Here's the story: Super Bowl Sunday - I'm in the midst of preparing for a small Super Bowl shindig at our house with my parents (my mom's birthday)...

#$@% hormones! I'm not a crier - I'm rarely moved to tears by what many people consider tearjerker movies. In fact, my nickname in high school was "insensitive b---h." I'm not good at empathizing with people, and I really don't pick up on subtle mood swings in others very well. I'm not...

I think I'm in trouble. My daughter, Harper, turned two at the end of February. She just started talking enough to really let us know what she wants in December, and her vocabulary has expanded leaps and bounds since then. But she's always been headstrong and probably tends to get her way...

Our daughter (who turned two last week) has apparently gotten accustomed to blaming things on the pets in our house. Last night she was put to bed with her doll, but then also requested her teddy bear. I told her I'd go find it, and then shouted back to her that I didn't see her bear. The...

testing again [ 02-06-2007, 10:16 PM: Message edited by: kzdz ]

Harper loves her dogs. Usually. Last night we had some "sibling" rivalry going on. The instigator? Play-Doh. I was standing by the couch, folding laundry and talking to my husband while he was cooking dinner when I hear screaming/crying behind me. It was the whiny...

I've made a couple of quilts now and really enjoy it. But my sewing machine is old and can't really handle machine quilting so I'm looking into a new machine. Any suggestions on a good machine at a reasonable price? I don't need to do anything fancy, it just takes me a really long time to...

I'm just too excited to hold it in anymore. My boys won the division. Never in first place alone until the one day it counted. There were tears of joy in my house last night. And again when I was watching the news. And Joe Mauer got the batting title to boot! That kid never ceases to amaze...

Harper (human child) seems to be jealous of Morgan (furkid) when Morgan is getting attention, or if Harper is getting tired and cranky. Examples: Harper still has a pretty limited vocabulary, but she'll use her whiny voice and point to "tell on" Morgan. The other day she told on Morgan for...

I just got done reading "The Kite Runner." Wow - what an amazing book. I had put off reading it because I had so many other things going on this summer, but once I started, I couldn't put it down. Many of you probably have already read it - I know it's been getting great reviews for a...

You really can't make this "stuff" up... One of the judges in our courthouse today was presiding over a criminal trial. The defendant was representing himself and had waived his right to a jury trial. At some point during the proceedings, he decided that the whole thing was bullsh**, and he'd...

Our girl has never been known as the smart one in our crew. She's probably the sweetest girl you'll ever meet and I wouldn't change a thing about her, but the bulb just doesn't seem to burn particularly brightly sometimes... I got the following email from my husband this morning: "When you...

My little brother bought this place this spring and drove up there to start getting it going again as soon as school was out for the summer. (He teaches high school science). They've hired a manager to help run it. I think my brother will be teaching at least one more year, and then will see...

Anybody going to the Duluth show July 14-16? I'm hoping to go watch either Saturday or Sunday.

At 15 months Harper has pretty much mastered the words ball, bear, mama, dada, and this past weekend brought out "cookie." Yesterday, we were brushing Morgan - yes, Harper likes to help with that (I can't wait until she can do it on her own). I told Morgan to sit so I could comb out her chest...

Do you have your towel? ;) That reminds me, I need to read HHG again...

from my day that just needs to be shared. I'm a law clerk for a State District Court Judge. While I was in the courtroom waiting for the next hearing, I watched a man plead guilty to robbery charges - he robbed a pharmacy. Nothing unusual there, unfortunately. During the robbery, he handed...

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