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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.

My bed is upstairs. Broken. Which breaks me a little. Feels stupid and first-world, but that’s where I am. Angry because the people that moved it broke the footboard that never should’ve been disassembled in the first place. This bed’s moved nine times now, and nobody’s ever taken it apart so completely. The guy who […]

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I know, another post about moving to Colorado. But I’m still in the thick of it and the disasters we’ve encountered moving across the country are fresh, and keep coming. Oh. Also, sorry for the occasional ragey rantyisness that may come through my helpful advice. Like the title says – disasters (but in the first […]

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People (including me until recently) think that families who move for government or military jobs have it made. The government helps with closing costs for a new home, pays for a house-hunting trip, and sends professionals to pack your things. For anybody who’s moved across country, moving for the US Government sounds blissful, right? I’m […]

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I cried at the end of Toy Story 3 when Andy brought his toys to the little girl and walked her through each one’s name and special abilities. “Now, you gotta promise to take good care of these guys. They mean a lot to me.” *SOB* I felt like a more sentimental version of Andy’s […]

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