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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.

If you’re friends with me on Facebook, you might know I just had a birthday. A big one. I’m in denial but… *cough* I just turned 50. One half of a century. This aging thing ain’t a joke, friends! Also? I have a newly-nine-year-old. These two things aren’t unique in themselves, but they’re here in Colorado […]

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It’s 7:13 pm and I’m looking for a photo to share for a blog post that goes live in 47 minutes. I really need to get more pro-active. In my defense, we recently moved, I had a *gulp* birthday this week, and a bunch of (some?) people are coming over Saturday for a party. Because, […]

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Sometimes, when you hear stories about a grandparent when you’re young, you tune them out, and only remember parts. It’s not until you want to share family history with your own child that those stories become interesting again. On our drive from Virginia to Colorado, we stopped in Dayton, Ohio, where my dad grew up. […]

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Unfortunately, worrying comes easily to me. I worry about catastrophes in my absence (because if I’m there, either I’ll be able to stop them with my yet undiscovered superpowers…or think, “at least we’ll all die together.”). When Tucker was young, the first time I traveled without him, I worried the tree in front of our […]

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This summer has been different from most summers in that we’ve had a lot of summertime change, grief, and a hero name tag. Summertime Change Change of scenery, of home, and of where the drawer that holds my silverware is. It’s the summer we moved from Northern Virginia (a suburb of DC) to Colorado, where […]

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Today, I created three new recycling bags of packing paper looking for a photo of my brother and I with my grandparents. I won’t give any more away because I’ll use that photo one of these weeks. Speaking of packing paper… I unwound a huge taped-up wad of it to find a charging cord, a […]

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