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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.

Yesterday, I cleaned the fish tank again.  They’re all still alive.  I know.  I was surprised, too. Cleaning the fish tank is a big deal for me.  I hate it, and even worse, I’m shockingly bad at it.  Honestly, Tucker would probably do a better job.  Okay, that might be a stretch considering that even […]

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If you missed Part 1, you can see it here.  It’s ok.  I’ll wait. Caught up?  Okay, then, where did we leave off?  Oh, right.  The publisher you found on Google would rather shave a cat than read your memoir. See?  They’re bald now. Because you had to send your memoir.  Poor kitties.  Gonna be […]

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First, you get really excited and sit down to write the next best selling novel. You get completely into it.  To the point where it actually feels easy. See my mad typing skills?  I’m fast.  What?  Allow me my foolish pride in one of the few things I’m actually good at, okay? You skip showering […]

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For those of you following the potty training saga, it’s not going so well recently. Somebody had to change his pants five times on Saturday. But, rather than get into the pee-stained details, I’d like to instead share a triumph.  Why a triumph?  Because the following means that Tucker not only understands what pooping is […]

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Once upon a time, long ago, there was a little girl named Kristi who grew up in Colorado.  Sometimes, it would snow. Sometimes, it would snow a lot.  Was school cancelled?  Very rarely.  One of the few times I remember celebrating snow days was due to such a huge blizzard that our driveway had six-foot […]

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