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Based on this year’s Thanksgiving pictures, I cannot promise a Christmas card.

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Haha.  Not really.  But I thought it was a good title! Seriously, though, last weekend, Jack celebrated his First Reconciliation, or First Confession.  We were very proud of him, as it’s pretty nerve-wracking to pour all of your 7-year-old sins out to a priest.  We were not so proud of our other three, who had [...]

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This, which was posted on Jack’s locker until yesterday, made me cry: Earlier this week, Luke (my 4-almost-5-year-old) had the sharing bag for preschool.  He was asked to bring something related to Thanksgiving.  Do you know what he brought? This: One of his teachers told me later that Lukie pulled the picture out of his [...]

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Who knew toilet paper could be so fun?!? Teenagers, obviously.  (Sooooooo glad we’re not at that stage yet, especially when look out our windows to see that the neighbors trees are covered in it.) What do you use toilet paper for?  That’s it? ‘Cause there are other things you can do!  Of course, you might [...]

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Dan has received a lot of kudos from friends and family for recently braving the trip to St. Louis with our three oldest children. And, for the most part, he deserves those kudos.  He did have a lot of help at the other end, but hey, he drove all the way there and back with [...]

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The plan was to pack up the kids and head to St. Louis this weekend to visit Dan’s family.  Everyone was healthy… finally. Or so we thought. Friday morning, around 2 a.m., Sam crawled into bed with us.  That wasn’t very unusual, but the fact that he tossed and turned rather than falling right back [...]

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I think one of my worst nightmares would be to have a job on the cleaning crew at at packing peanuts factory.  Seriously.  There should be a special place in hell for the guy (I know it was a guy) who invented – accidentally or intentionally – these murderously annoying things. Early this afternoon, I [...]

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Over the weekend I successfully bribed the kids into cleaning the basement.  I gathered them together and told them all that if they all did a top-notch job of cleaning the basement then we would go and get the final Star Wars movie:  Revenge of the Sith. Usually, bribes don’t tend to work around here.  [...]

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Having had Sam at 32 weeks, my doctors this time felt it prudent to take some extra steps to prevent another preterm baby.  These steps include injecting me WEEKLY with progesterone until I reach 36 weeks.  Considering that the shots bring me from a 30% chance down to a 10% chance of having a preterm [...]

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