tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63760554725351037712024-03-12T19:20:54.341-04:00My GirlsMeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.comBlogger428125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-14597842106491583372017-01-02T22:05:00.002-05:002017-01-02T22:05:29.351-05:00An Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's 2017. </div>
I love this blog and I love looking back at the pictures and reading the posts. I wonder why I ever stopped. It seems like I have taken a lot less pictures over the past years that I haven't posted here and I would like to get back to that. I understand there is about a three and half year gap from my last post to this one, but it's important to start somewhere. Here where I will start.<br />
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In May 2014 after 17 long weeks of bedrest and 39 long weeks of an unexpected pregnancy I had a baby boy named Callan.<br />
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He completed our family that we didn't even know we needed completing. </div>
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Little did we know we were in store for 3 months of Colic. You can't even begin to understand colic until you've had a baby that has it. So between a having a baby, and a baby with colic, and the rest of life things have been a crazy chaos for the past few years. </div>
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But here we are: </div>
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We are managing to survive; barely some days, my girls are grown up more than I can hardly stand, and this little boy runs the show. I look forward to a year of family, love, fun, and more pictures of our memories than ever before. </div>
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-85698691213154540872013-09-16T13:17:00.000-04:002017-01-02T21:42:46.796-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-56259217156894007092013-07-26T15:45:00.001-04:002013-07-26T15:45:10.076-04:00Summer Bucket List: Crew Tower Observation Deck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have just been at such a loss for words lately, so I will let the photos do most of the talking. I have learned a few things from doing this whole mother thing for a few years now, and one of those things is that adding a scavenger hunt makes anything more fun. It's so easy peasy lemon squeezy too. One can simply Google image (like how I'm using that noun as a verb) any version of scavenger hunt and print. I searched "city scavenger hunt" this particular day when I knew we were going to be headed downtown to climb to the top of the, now, second largest building in Cincinnati: the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carew_Tower" target="_blank">Crew Tower. </a>What I came up with was this one: <a href="http://thebirdfeednyc.com/2012/05/30/scavenger-hunt-for-kids-city-search-2/"> City Scavenger Hunt</a>, but there are plenty to choose from. <br />
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Climbing the Crew Tower is something I've wanted to do for a long time, but it just hadn't happened until now. It reiterated that I am terrified of heights but provided some amazing views of my city on a beautiful day.<br />
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You can find <a href="http://www.cincinnatiusa.com/Attractions/detail.asp?AttractionID=83&Attraction=Carew+Tower">Crew Tower Info</a> here about the times they are open and the cost of $2 to ride the multiple elevators that shrink each time you get to the next <i>Alice in Wonderland style</i>, but is worth it for the views. <br />
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Of all of us the things on our Summer Bucket List this has been my favorite so far for sure.<br />
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Earlier in the week we had drove nearly an hour north of Cincinnati to go to a pick your own fruit farm only to find out that they don't allow children in the fields. I was pretty ticked, but we moved on and found a place even closer to home and south instead of north. <br />
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This place was a small family farm that had a huge field of strawberries for the girls to frolic in. <br />
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I love that they love to wear butterfly wings to places like farms. </div>
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To top off the super fun afternoon we ate the sweetest, most delicious ripe strawberries I have every eaten sold to us from the cutest grandma in the whole world. I love that my girls are meeting new people and leaning about where food really comes from and how much sweeter it can be.</div>
Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-75919011220539399942013-06-03T09:57:00.002-04:002013-06-03T09:57:36.204-04:00Stargazing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So... I get these ideas in my mind of fun adventures and things to do with my girls. Sometimes I romanticize them and get this picture of a beautiful summer evening of stargazing in my head. We are laying on a quilt, the quilt that my kids will remember as the constant of their childhood, and we will look at stars and planets and enjoy the breeze of a June Saturday night in a state park.<br />
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But then reality sets in and the storm clouds roll in:<br />
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About an hour north of Cincinnati there is a park that stays open till 11pm and is far enough outside of the city lights that makes it optimal for looking a the sky (when it's clear skies of course). Stonelick Park offers free stargazing every Saturday with help from the Cincinnati Observatory. You can find information here:<br />
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The clouds gave break enough for us to enjoy our bucket of chicken under a shelter and to explore the park, lake, and beach a little. <br />
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We will try again and have that romantic night under the stars that I had envisioned another Saturday, but this was a fun memory none the less.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are on a mission for a summer filled with memories, adventures, and new life experiences. I am shamed to say that my littles have never had the summer experience of a Blizzard from Dairy Queen until this day. </span><br />
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When we were making our summer bucket list I threw it on there and didn't even give it a second though, because DQ Blizzards equates to summer time right?<br />
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I have seen around recently little girl hair buns and my girls are even cuter with them, they have both gotten to the age where they are opinionated about the way their hair is fixed or styled and I'm surprised they let me give them these buns, but I'm glad they did, because they are adorable. <br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-56793585783596167142013-05-27T10:35:00.000-04:002013-07-23T10:41:09.291-04:00Happy Memorial Day <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Another thing on our Summer Bucket List was to make snow cones:<br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-49268983554239302013-05-17T10:15:00.000-04:002013-06-03T10:41:21.013-04:00Pretend Restaurant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the things on our summer bucket list was to open a pretend restaurant, so that's what we did.<br />
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The girls came up with a name, what type of food they wanted, and we made menus and a sign.<br />
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We printed out menus and they decorated them with print outs from a quick google search of the foods they choose and some crayons. <br />
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We opened a pretend Italian restaurant and even drank out of fancy glasses. The girls took turns being chefs and waitresses and I'm sure this is something we will being doing over and over because it was delicious. <br />
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My steps to have a family movie night:<br />
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buy a bunch of boxed candy and popcorn from the dollar store<br />
look for junk food in the house <br />
have hubby pick up a pizza on his way home<br />
lay out quilts, pillows, and sleeping bags<br />
pray no one spills anything on the carpet<br />
find something good on Netflix <br />
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"Riley, tell me what you're favorite part of the zoo was."<br />
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"The Komono Dragons. Wait no, actually, my favorite part was Gladys."<br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-15496719152481614192013-05-02T09:22:00.000-04:002013-05-03T09:25:08.293-04:00Writing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
To write and write well, you just have to start writing. I have been away from this blog for awhile and I'm not sure why, because I have missed it a lot. I need a place in my life to document all the ridiculousness that I experience; like at the grocery when my child asks me in the deli section around a handful of people if I pooped her out or if they had to cut my belly open, or the ridiculousness at my work that I would love to share if I wasn't terrified of being sued over HIPPA because some of the experiences I have one cannot even make them up.<br />
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A very wise man, Ernest Hemingway, once said that to overcome writers
block, "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest
sentence you know." <br />
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I want to be a fabulous mother that fills her children's memories full of fun, smiles, laughter, and a slew of life experiences.<br />
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That's
the truest sentence I know, and that's what I miss from not blogging
the past few months. I of course have been finding ways to make our
lives fun and having fun experiences with my family, but don't have one
place to look back and read about the memories to remind me and to look
at the photos that brings me back to that moment in time.<br />
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Tomorrow we plan on going to the zoo. One of my favorite places in our city. I plan to take 500 million pictures and capture the smiles of my girls next to blooming spring flowers and little wee zoo babies and post them here so I never forget and my girls never forget wonder days like that.<br />
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Plus somehow these kids have grown up on me and I just need to be paying closer attention to it all. <br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-58100984234817116472013-04-15T17:28:00.000-04:002013-07-26T17:43:33.052-04:00The Root Beer Stand II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you will remember, we visited the Root Beer Stand<a href="http://megherald.blogspot.com/2011/07/root-beer-stand.html"> before</a>, Raigan was just a wee little one and my photography skills were way better. I'm slackin' that department of life at the current moment, but hope to practice my skills on a more regular basis again. <br />
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But we went and I documented it none the less, even if some may have been with my iPhone. I also added to the repertoire by throwing in a fun spur of the moment trip to Sharron Woods. God bless my husband for always being supportive and go with the flow to my crazy ideas for our adventures. <br />
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Our day started out in this fashion which is always promising; the girls are getting along, clean, dressed, have hair accessories. This is way above some day's standards. <br />
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The Root Beer Stand is awesome because it has kegs? barrels? large amounts of homemade creamy root beer and the best root beer floats known to man.<br />
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They have a large play structure in the back for the kids to play on.<br />
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After we stuffed our bellies with root beer, ice cream, and chilli dogs we rode right up the street to Sharon Woods and rented a petal boats spur of the moment on this beautiful spring day. You can find info about boat rental in Sharon Woods <a href="http://greatparks.org/parks/sharon-woods/sharon-woods-boathouse">here.</a> <br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-36129341792716716572013-03-23T09:54:00.000-04:002013-06-01T10:07:30.066-04:00Easter 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We have our annual Easter Egg Hunt party with the girls' cousins. I love Easter and it's my favorite holiday. I think I mention that every Easter, but it never changes. I love that it's the start of spring and something new. I love that these kids will have a tradition that they will forever remember also. It's amazing to see the bigs that were once littles helping the little ones out. <br />
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The annual Easter egg dying, always chaotic and always fun.<br />
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The food setup, or what is left of it rather:<br />
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For our egg hunt each year we hide a key in one of the eggs and the finder of the key gets a large chocolate bar or bunny or some kind of large prize; this is this years:<br />
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We take this picture every year and they all change so much:<br />
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When I was a little girl as young as I can remember I used to help my mom purchase things for Easter baskets and make them. I was the 3rd and last child of the family so the secret of the Easter bunny and Santa didn't last. I still love carrying on this tradition with my girls and they think the Easter Bunny really does hide their basket every year.<br />
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The iced coffee is what the Easter Bunny brought for me:<br />
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Happy Easter my girls, I hope you enjoy every minute of your childhood.<br />
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I hope to start a new Easter tradition by putting a Reds shirt or some kind of merchandise in their Easter basket for Opening Day.<br />
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Happy Easter 2013!</div>
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My kids and their books:<br />
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I love bookstores. It doesn't matter if it's a national chair or a mom and pop (those I do love more, though). I hope that there is a whole category of my girls' childhood memory that holds the hours we spend in bookstores. <br />
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I had a short moment of envy when we were in this particular bookstore because I wanted to purchase every single children's book there for my kids library, but obviously do not have the means to do that. Short after, I soon realized that my girls <i>already </i>have a good portion of the books from our many "you can pick out one book to purchase" trips. I also thought about how beautiful these books on these shelves are with their nice clean covers and fresh spines that aren't yet worn, but there's something to be said about our books at home. They show that they have been held, read, played with, read again many of times and there is a beauty just as beautiful to the worn, tattered books in my girls library. <br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-15649609369807720722012-10-25T15:47:00.002-04:002012-10-25T15:47:25.037-04:00Random Thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My brain works in a way that a psychiatrist might describe as a flight of ideas, but that's me. In case you're not familiar:<br />
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<span class="hw">flight of ideas,</span><br />
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psychiatry) a continuous stream of talk in which the patient switches
rapidly from one topic to another and each subject is incoherent and
unrelated to the preceding one or is stimulated by some environmental
circumstance<a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/flight+of+ideas" target="_blank"> (source).</a><br />
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I like getting all my thoughts out because there are always a million things running thought my mind.<br />
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First, I'm tired.I am not a night-shifter as a mother. Pre-baby days definitely, but now not so much. I'm not really sure what my resolve to this is, but I am getting less sleep I think than the days I had a newborn. I have tried ear plugs, black out shades, etc. and just cannot sleep during daytime hours. <br />
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I keep half joking and half serious say that I am going to write a book about my friends and I and our lives, because sometimes they are crazier than a reality TV show. I think it would be great if they gave me permission to write about the craziness in a book or on this blog, because I think it's too much to contain amongst ourselves.Our careers, the men in our lives, the ridiculous drama that seems to find us sometimes; it's pretty interesting stuff.<br />
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I have had a horrible case of the baby crazies (a strong urge to have another baby-after seeing other people's babies) lately.<br />
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My phone and computer are both starting to give out. I think between the kids and I, we have dropped my laptop one too many times, and it takes 20 minutes to load a 30 second video and watch it and part of the screen is falling off. My phone's touch screen has a mind of it's own and will just randomly take over and start to open things when it wants to without even touching it. If anyone knows anything about me they would know that these are vital to my existence, sadly enough, they are right up there with oxygen.It's how I schedule things, pay bills, communicate, and maintain my sanity.<br />
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Halloween is almost here and I love this holiday. Our family is dressing up as superheros and I am so excited to wear our costumes, even though I have to go into work after our trick or treating. We haven't carved our pumpkins yet- but I think with the 80 degree weather around here tonight may just be a perfect night to do it. I will probably have to go out and buy some more candy because every year in an attempt to plan ahead we buy candy for trick or treaters and then we end up eating most of it before Halloween gets here...<br />
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Thanks readers for listening to my random thoughts of Thursday. Raigan thinks they are hilarious:<br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-46711036544258986652012-10-01T15:45:00.000-04:002012-10-22T15:52:27.381-04:00Fall Traditions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I think everyone that lives in an area of the country that offers crisp fall October days cannot deny that this season is for them. It has so much to offer and is full of fall traditions for my little family.We love fall church festivals, winning inflatable sharks, and taking naps snuggling them. When I came in to check on her at nap and she was legitimately snuggling this thing and sleeping; it cracked me up. <br />
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I love that with each season there is a fresh start to things. A fresh new weather pattern to experience, new routines, new ways to spend our days and weekends, and the city never fails to deliver. There are always festivals, new restaurants to try, farms with pumpkin patches to visit, and even our favorite familiar places to revisit over and over. <br />
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I hope my children never outgrow loving to get their faces painted, and I don't think they will. That's our "go-to/ gotta make sure we hit up that booth" at every festival. <br />
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Once upon a time this summer I was in an airport on my way to Savannah, Georgia for one of my best friend's bachlorette weekends. Sometimes I feel like I'm making stories up because my life is really fun sometimes and I never thought I would get to fly to the south to hang with my friends. But I'm not making it up. It really happened.<br />
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<i>Our group of friends on a haunted pub tour in Savannah, Ga. </i></div>
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So I'm in this airport and I go to get through security and they ask me if I'm 16. I giggle- and then realize that they are being serious. (I am assuming that there is a rule that if you are under 16 you have to be escorted to your flight?) Which makes me laugh even more and I proceed to show them my ID that I am not underage and my bag falls over on the security conveyer belt and out falls novelty things for a bachelorette party- I blush- and then out flops a copy of 50 Shades of Gray that I had intended to read on the plane. <br />
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<i>One of my besties and Bride to Be on Tybee Island. </i></div>
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I am eager as ever to show them that I'm actually 25 and make a point that they see my wedding rings in an attempt to convince them that I'm not some kind of weirdo. I soon come to realization that I am a weirdo and no longer care because I was pumped as every for a fun weekend with my friends.<br />
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<i>The "Lets see how awkward all of us can stand for a group beach picture" picture. </i></div>
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I never read it on the plane, because I can't start a book while I am in the middle of the other, and I was trying to finish the one that I was in the middle of, which I did. While we were on the beach though one of my friends swiped my copy and has had it until this weekend.<br />
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<i>My family joining me in Savannah before we enjoyed a lovely week on HHI. </i> </div>
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Our family has had an end of the summer cold with fevers and ear aches and general malaise. I was not immune and spent most of the weekend sleeping, trying to recover, and reading. I finally got to read the book, and the feminist in my did not like it, but out of sheer boredom of being sick laying in bed I even read the second book, which got a little better.<br />
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Other than being sick this weekend-which killed our apple pickin' plans, we had our follow up with Raigan's pulmonologist. We spent far too much time in the office as a previous client had, as he put it, had a very interesting situation going on" I normally would pry for information on the medical drama, since I'm normally into that stuff, but I was too exhausted from being locked in a very small exam room with two little girls that did not want to sit still, were interested in touching and nearly breaking everything in the room, and when they weren't doing that they were fighting with one another.<br />
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I image this is a form of torture in some places of the world.<br />
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Dr. Pulmonologist and I collectively decided to take the very conservative route with my little's lungs, because they have been doing so well all summer and we'll keep a very close eye on things. <br />
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The girls have had cheerleading and our big competition is coming up very soon here in a few weeks.This will be Raigan's first, and even though she is only 2 we're really excited about her getting to experience the fun of it to whatever the ability she can.<br />
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Kindergarten is quite the learning curve, and not even for Riley, for me. I had corresponded with her teacher more than once this week because this stuff is complicated. I just want to do my best to help her succeed because she is a very bright little girl and I think we finally got things squared away. We are well on our way to a successful school year, it's just so crazy to me that we are already heading into our 4th week of the school year. I'm always surprised though how fast time moves once you have children. <br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-90425763499882733922012-09-14T05:08:00.001-04:002012-09-14T05:08:21.001-04:00To Plan or Not to Plan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I really do enjoy writing, but sometimes there's just nothing in there to write about or there is so much in my brain that I need to get out, write down, or talk it out with a friend over coffee that I find it overwhelming and avoid it instead.<br />
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I think it's one of those times. We have a lot going on in our lives right now, mostly all good things, but a lot. Cheerleading and coaching is taking up the majority of our week, then there is Kindergarten and trying to find routines and consistency. On top of that is my work.<br />
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My writing here has nothing to do with these photographs, but I love them and I'm just trying to have things flow and inspire me. I think that's the easiest way to write is when you just start writing and don't worry if things connect or are in appropriate order. You just follow your thoughts and write them down and worry about the editing and rearranging later. <br />
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There are a few things on my mind lately that I think I should write about but sometimes just am not ready to. How appropriate that the one thing has been my confidence as of late. When I was a 17 year old, I was the most confident person. I thought the cliche was that in high school you're the <i>least </i>sure of yourself and the direction you want to take in life, but it wasn't true for me. I knew where I wanted to go to college, who my friends were, succeeded at my job as a student, and had a firm grasp on how my future was going to play out.<br />
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Today, in my mid 20s and a mother to these two little blessings, I'm at a take it take by day basis, because I'm not really sure what direction tomorrow is headed and even when I make plans, the plans don't always go as planned. Perhaps I was really naive at 17 and thought when you work hard enough to go in a direction that journey to your goal will be a straight line. I have definitely found this to be untrue. I have been so unsure about a lot of things lately and am even unsure about needing a plan for the future or goals. My plan currently is, like I said, to take it day by day and to just enjoy the way things happen on their own. <i>Maybe the best plan is to not even have a plan at all. </i><br />
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I have always been a planner though. I need to know what I'm working towards. It gives me drive. Now that I'm done with school, own a home, and have chosen a school for my girls, and have settled into a very comfortable place there isn't anything immediate in need of future plans. But the weirdo planner that I am, find that a little unsettling. But I'm working on it. I'm working on enjoying the fact that things are comfortable and the way that they are supposed to be. Perhaps, I just need to find a hobby. <br />
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My work is another thing I feel like I must plan. Last night when I was at work people were talking about in the future going back to school for their masters, changing jobs, moving to a different department eventually and I was asked what my plans were.<br />
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My thoughts were, " hmm, they asked me what my plans are at the only point in my life thus far where I don't possess a plan for anything."<br />
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And my response was, "I don't know, I plan to stay here in the ICU until I figure out what I want to be when I grow up."<br />
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Then a coworker said, "Well, I think an ICU nurse is a really good place to start." and from the tone of her voice, I heard, <i>shut up- you should be very proud of being an ICU nurse and you don't need a plan to move anywhere else, because being here is already quite an accomplishment.</i>I wish my constantly churning mind would get that memo. Another plan, since I need them is to convince myself of this. <br />
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<i>When I see these pictures it is so crazy to me that my little baby with lots of dark brown hair has grown into this beautiful confident little girl. She is so strong willed, an excelling reader, and I'm excited to watch her grow everyday. Her and her funny little sister. </i><br />
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It's milk in this coffee cup, but sister does enjoy sneaking sips of my coffees.<br />
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1. Stop making plans and enjoy things the way they are. <br />
2. Survive and even enjoy Kindergarten. <br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-18682268065978037992012-09-01T17:09:00.000-04:002012-09-01T17:09:04.806-04:00The Elite<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oh motherhood. There is quite a bit to say about this job that some of us have. I really think that God only chooses the strong and the elite for this position, and sometimes I wonder how I didn't get kicked our of the boot camp of motherhood long ago. It takes so much to be a mother and I think about putting it on my resume. It is the hardest job I have ever had and it has taught me the more skills and knowledge than any other even college.<br />
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<i>Job: Motherhood</i><br />
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<i>Hours worked: 24 hours a day/7 days a week=168 hours a week. </i><br />
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<i>(128 hours more than your average work week. Some may argue that most of this time is spent sleeping, but this is untrue. You only get to sleep if your children allow you to sleep. That's a whole lot of overtime that I'm not seeing on a paycheck anywhere.)</i><br />
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<i>Salary: Love, hugs, laughter, and $0. Actually the cost is probably in the red monetarily wise.</i><br />
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<i>Skills required: Multitasking, patience, intuition, balance, organization, budgeting, accommodating, cooking, cleaning, driving a car all over God's green earth, strength, being able to function without sleep, good communication skills, works well with others, motivated, flexible, and on and on. </i><br />
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<i>Tasks performed at job: too many for even the best To Do list to keep up with. </i><br />
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They say (whomever they is) that by your second child you're an expert and have gained confidence as a mother to listen to your instincts and that you know what to do.<br />
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Today I did not know what to do, even though I have a second child and only had 1 of my 2 children with me, which should have given me an advantage.<br />
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We were at Target. (does anyone else feel like every one of their motherhood stories starts that way? "I was at Target when..." It's true for me) looking for uniform shorts for my little Kindergartener. She starts to ask for all kinds of things and I try to explain to her that we can only spend this much money here today. She does not get it and does not get the concept of money yet, even with multiple attempts to explain it on many occasions. Heck, money is a complicated thing that sometimes I don't even understand.<br />
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I should have prefaced this story with the fact that she was at a cheerleading party last night, spent the night with her cousins, stayed up late, had been up since 6am for school that morning, and had cheered a football game in the swamp like humid heat. Now that I'm typing this, I should have known better than to take my sleep deprived, overheated little 5 year old into Target on a Saturday afternoon in the first place. Tack that one up for a lesson learned. <br />
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So here we are, standing in Target, her loosing her patience quickly for me not letting her get all that she wants and making her choose, and I loosing my patience for her getting aggravated and <i>not</i> choosing. She finally choose to forgo the uniform shorts and just stick with the uniform she already has but can be hot at times. I was okay with that, because she could only wear the uniform shorts for a few more weeks anyway and wouldn't really have been the best investment. So we get to the checkout line with the things she choose and she starts screaming to go get the shorts too. Not just whining either, full out-everyone is looking because they think someone is being murdered scream. <br />
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This is the part where my mother of 2 expertise and confidence should have come in, but it didn't. I just stood there like a deer in headlights and thought to myself, "what in the world is going on?"<br />
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She is hysterical from fatigue.<br />
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I'm frozen.<br />
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She is normally a passionate and very strong willed little girl (<i>must get that from her dad), </i>but she's never acted this crazy-in public at least. Well what do I do here? Should I try to explain money and a budget to a hysterical 5 year old again? No, it didn't get through even when she was level headed. Do I put everything back and walk out of the store and not buy her anything for acting the way she is? Do I just get this stuff and tell her she needs to apologize before getting it? I'm sure everyone can weigh in on it a little differently about the approach I <i>should </i>have taken. But instead of doing any of those things? You know what I did?<br />
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I started to laugh. <br />
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I have this horrible character trait of laughing at inappropriate times, and it's uncontrollable. <br />
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I just check out with what we had, tried to hide that I continued to laugh, she continued to scream, and we made our way to the car. I told her she was in trouble for acting like that and that it was disrespectful. She screamed the whole car ride home. I made her take a nap, which is where she is now.<br />
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I'm not sure if I'll return the stuff, or make her do chore to earn the stuff back, but I'll eventually come to a decision with confidence because I'm a mother of two. I'm sure we'll both learn something from this little fiasco. I think the moral of this story are a few things. One, motherhood is tough, however many children you have -1 or 19. Two, we cannot be supermom, do it all, and have all the answers all the time in all situations. And most importantly, three, do not take your sleep deprived 5 year old to Target. <br />
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And I'll leave you with another Target motherhood story. I was at Target when I started talking to this mom whom had children the same age as mine. We really hit it off and were talking about baby carriers when I realized that I'm wearing a neon green t-shirt that says "Here for the Beer" that I have no idea where it came from.. I'm sure this lady had judge me, a mom of two little girls with this shirt on and I frankly didn't blame her. I remember ever time not to wear that t shirt to the baby section of Target. <br />
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Also, kudos to all the mothers that work hard every day trying to be the best they can be for their kids.And when you think you aren't doing enough and that there is always more to do, stop beating yourself up and trying to be supermom. Instead, congratulate yourself for all the kick ass work that you're already doing and all that you do accomplish. <br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-81721156130932502752012-08-29T02:05:00.000-04:002012-08-29T02:05:31.371-04:001st Day of Preschool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's a lot for one mama to take all these big changes in her little's childhoods, but I guess it doesn't matter if it's a lot or not. Life goes on anyway. My littlest little started her preschool year today, she's still in the 2s classroom, but seems so much older to me and a baby all at the same time. <br />
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Raigan was really excited to head back to school and rejoin all of her friends that she left in the spring. She loves her school and her teachers, but apparently did not like what they served for lunch because I got a report that she was throwing them some dirty looks and rolling her eyes when they asked her to at least try a bite. It gave me a good laugh, because I knew exactly which one of her looks they were talking about. <br />
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The driving we do in a day has increased tenfold since we are going to two different schools that are no longer anywhere near our jobs, but it's what we think is best for our family. Hopefully the start of the school year will form a little more of a structure to our days and weeks. <br />
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Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-41388876472463018042012-08-23T12:58:00.000-04:002012-08-27T13:27:32.801-04:001st Day of Kindergarten<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wow. We are actually here. I've given this day a lot of thought, but it came faster than it should have. Our first born is running with the big kids. She's a grade school-er now. I wanted to make her first day really special, so daddy and I took off work and we went to have breakfast at our favorite little coffee shop. Riley's choice was a large white doughnut and orange fruit smoothie.<br />
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I of course made her pose for a slew of first day of kindergarten pictures and she was very happy to oblige.<br />
The theme of her classroom is owl, so we ran with it and got her an owl backpack, lunchbox, and pouch.<br />
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This is her, "Uh, Mom. I'm not really too sure about all this" face, which really surprised me. It took a little bit of effort for me to trade days at work so I could be there for her first day, and when telling people at work, I said she probably could care less that I'll be there, she'll just march right in there and own the place like she normally does and that being there was probably more for me than it was for her. Then this morning came, and she was very reserved and hit behind her dad while I embarrassed (and had fun doing so!) myself and did the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF1BrP-vLpI&feature=related" target="_blank">ToodieTa</a> with her class. She did this song/dance in preschool and was never embarrassed by it, but I guess Kindergarten made her too cool. I think things fell into place though after we left, because she talked all morning about how she loved it. <br />
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She is so funny, when I was writing this post she asked how I took those pictures and in a suspicious voice said, "MOM! Did you take pictures through the window!?" and I laughed and replied, "Not this time." She knows me too well and my crazy antics to be the sentimental mom that I am. </div>
Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442524649100806516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376055472535103771.post-14306122726571394392012-08-18T13:29:00.000-04:002012-08-27T13:32:39.974-04:00A Day in the Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I think day in the life posts are so fun. It's a good way to remember what life really was like from day to day. Today, Friday, was a typical day for me.<br />
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3:20 am I wake up because I cannot sleep any longer due to working night shift. I embrace it and use the time to myself and to get a few things done.<br />
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3:30 get up and finally watch a show I've had DVRed for awhile and watch it in peace without interruption.<br />
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4:00 I get excited for an open day, but soon realize we have lots to do still before school starts. I begin to organize my day by making a To Do List. I also take all of my girls school papers, cheerleading papers, and my work schedule and fill everything in on my planner and Google calendar in my phone. I check emails and fill in other dates of things like a meeting for work, a required training class to volunteer at Riley's school for the upcoming year, first PTO meeting, etc. <br />
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5:00 I also organize, gather, and make copies of papers to later drop off at school. A few years ago I made a family binder. It's just a regular 2 inch binder with pocket sections in it for each member of our family. It hold important documents like our marriage license, birth certificates, immunization forms, etc. It has saved me so much time because now I don't have to search everywhere because all important things are in one place. <br />
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5:30 I look at our bills and pay some online, make notes of the ones that need to be paid other ways, and make our budget for the rest of the month.<br />
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5:45 I sneak into the girls room to grab their laundry without waking them up and throw a load in the washer.<br />
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6:00 Take a shower without interruption (the little things in life). Get myself dressed and ready for the day. <br />
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6:45 Change the load of laundry and put a new load in. Start to pick up the kitchen and the string of toys and little pink things that litter the floors. <br />
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7:15 Hub is up for work. He gets ready and we talk about what all is going on for the day and where everyone needs to be. He leaves for work.<br />
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8:00 I'm already tired again and sit down, watch some morning tv and read some blogs, search on Pinterest, and drink a cup of<strike> gasoline</strike> coffee. I bought these new Keurig coffee cups and it definitely was dark roast with more kick than espresso. I decide that I really need to cut coffee out of my life slowly.<br />
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8:30 Breakfast is started. I put some slices of bacon on the griddle, slice some kiwi, heat up some waffles from the day before, rinse some grapes, and make some scrambled eggs. As things are cooking I empty the dishwasher and load it again.<br />
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9:00 I wake the girls up to eat breakfast. They are reluctant, but come into the kitchen with their blankets in tow. Riley tells me she is not hungry and doesn't want to eat anything at all that I made for breakfast.We have a long discussion about how this is what we are having and that we are not going to eat anything else until lunch time which is in a few hours. She takes a couple bites and we move on.<br />
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9:30 The girls get in the bathtub. We get dressed and I braid their hair after much deliberation of their hairstyle for the day. I am only expecting this to get worse as they age, but enjoy it, because I used to dream about having little girls and would fix my baby doll's hair, and now I have real babies of my own.<br />
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10:15 We finally make it out the door to go school shoe shopping.<br />
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10:30 We arrive at shoe store number one. I quickly become aggravated because every shoe I or the girls like they do not have in their size. Riley asks for those <a href="http://www.skechers.com/girls/brands/bella-ballerina" target="_blank">Sketcher ballerina shoes</a>. I explain to her at least 10 times that she is not allowed to wear those to school and that she must pick something else. I chase Raigan up and down the isles and curse advertisement and swear that Riley is never allowed to watch tv again. Raigan continues to dart and giggle. It's definitely time to leave. <br />
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10:50 Before entering the mall the girls and I have a talk about the appropriate way to act in a store. We also talk about how it's disrespectful to continue to ask for something when a parent has already told them no multiple times. I contemplate taking the stroller in or just chasing the girls down myself and decide the later would be easier. We look at lots of shoe stores and not many have large selection of toddler sizes. The girls finally choose a pair and we stop by Claire's to find a 9x11 inch pouch, open at the top, and with a long strap that Riley needs as one of her supplies. Crazy specific, but we find this cute owl one.<br />
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12:00 We drop papers off to the school office.<br />
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12:15 Off to Target we head to find the rest of our school supplies we need and a different backpack, because the owl one we have does not fit folders or notebooks. Boo.<br />
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1:00 We are back home and have lunch. They requests eating cinnamon rolls for lunch and I oblige and offer them fruits and veggies on the side.<br />
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1:30 My dad arrives to sit with the girls during nap time so I can go to a hair appointment. Raigan is down for a nap and Riley is in her room and plays quietly. I head out to the salon. I talk to my husband about our shopping experience and whatever else while he is on his lunch break. <br />
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2:00 I get to the salon and it's my lucky day because they have free Greater's Ice Cream for all their clients. I indulged in a container of chocolate chocolate chip, get my hair done, cut, and feel like a new woman.<br />
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4:00 I get back home. Raigan is still napping and Riley gets dressed for cheerleading practice.<br />
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5:00 We head to the gym for cheerleading.<br />
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5:15 Hub gets to the gym to pick Raigan up so I can coach without supervising a toddler at the same time. The girls do a fabulous job at the gym and we make big progress in our routine for our first competition in October. I'm exhausted.<br />
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7:10 Practice is over and we head home.<br />
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7:30 We get home and eat dinner my dad had made for us in the crock-pot, so wonderful of him.<br />
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I do not get everything done on my To Do List, but it's not the end of the world. I will try again tomorrow because I can do a lot, but I cannot due it all. I end the day and call it a success. <br />
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