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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.

I truly am working on two halfway decent posts.  Sadly though, I’m really really slow, kind of dumb, extremely unorganized and crazy busy preparing for Christmas and getting ready to visit Colorado for the holidays. Yup, boy and his parents are getting on a plane.  It could be really fun.  It could suck ass (the […]

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I’ve been trying to finish a funny post about my dog.  The bones are there, but it’s just not to the point where it makes me laugh like a maniac all by myself in the way that this dog story did. It started this morning after I dropped Tucker off at school.  It was the […]

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I was planning on writing another post tonight but it’s almost midnight and I’m tired.  Plus, if the Mayans are right, there’s gonna be a huge mess here for me to clean up tomorrow after the world ends.

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You know how every once in a while, you’re somewhere, doing something mundane and all of a sudden, you look up and realize that the night is totally beautiful?  That was me, last night, while walking the dog.  I looked up and was like “It’s so gorgeous!  What a lovely huge moon!  And so many […]

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Last night, Tucker wanted me to draw a ninee on his hand.  What?  He did! Really! Ok fine.  It was totally me.  The seventh-grader within obviously hadn’t done enough doodling on her friends back in the day because I’ve gotta admit that I didn’t even think about it.  The ink pen was out.  Tucker was […]

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