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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.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, friends.  We’re not actually doing anything to celebrate.  In fact, we made a critical error in judgement earlier that was pretty much the opposite of celebrating. We went to Costco.  On a weekend.  Right after lunchtime.  Which means that in addition to people shoving their carts in front of you to […]

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This week’s sentence to finish is “I did something really stupid once…”  Talk about a perfect topic.  Except, well, “once?”  How am I supposed to tell you about something stupid I did once when the prevailing theme of my life (and therefore Finding Ninee’s) is “I did something stupid AGAIN?” Luckily, I was able to […]

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Last week, Tucker’s school was closed for the slush-mess that often passes for snow here in Northern Virginia.  Same goes for Robert’s and my work places.  Which meant that the three of us were home, hanging out, trying to find ways other than the TV to engage little dude.  Perhaps you’re thinking that a snow-day […]

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If you visit Finding Ninee on a regular basis, you know that I don’t usually do wrap-ups.  While it’s true that many of the cool kids do them weekly, for some reason, they historically have left a bad taste in my mouth.  I had to wonder why and explore this.  Maybe the bad taste is […]

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I tried to cook up the perfect recipe for an ideal life.  I was nine years old.  This is about how it went. First, I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer. Not just any lawyer. I was going to be like Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned, defending the wrongfully accused!  I […]

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