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Kristi Rieger Campbell's passion is writing and drawing stupid-looking pictures for her blog, Finding Ninee. It began with a memoir about her special-needs son Tucker, abandoned when she read that a publisher would rather shave a cat than read another memoir. Kristi writes for a variety of parenting websites including Huffington Post Parents, has been published in several popular anthologies, received 2014 BlogHer's Voice of the Year People's Choice Award, and was a proud cast member of the DC Listen to Your Mother show. Find her on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

Usually, I’ve got nothing but massive amounts of love for my car’s navigational system. Because I am so horribly directionally challenged, I use it pretty much all the time.  Even when I know which way to go, I sometimes ask her to provide me with route guidance just to see what time she thinks we’ll […]

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I was prepared to throw myself a raging blogpost pity party due to the fact that the link love extravaganza I attempted to get all jiggy with didn’t have any links.  I felt like I was hanging out at my birthday party table all alone.  Sure, it’s nice to not have to share my cake, […]

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Ah, Sunday.  At the beginning of this four-day weekend, you seemed so far away and yet still an active participant in the bliss of spending extended time with family, playing outdoors, eating comfort food (if stuffing isn’t something we should incorporate into more meals, I don’t know what is) and relaxing.  Yet, here you are, […]

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Before I began blogging, I knew nothing about it. I’m not exaggerating. I didn’t even read other people’s blogs. I didn’t look for them or at them. I was totally and completely removed from the blogging world. How did I get here? Hm. I wonder, too. Basically, I’d written a bunch of stuff (which you […]

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We should still be hanging out with my in-laws, out of town, but Tucker was sick.  AGAIN.  I’d heard rumors that once kids start preschool that they’re sick A LOT, but sortof felt immune, and figured the anti-germ death rays collected in the millions of community activities we’ve participated in might have prepared his immune […]

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