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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.

Turns out that one of Tucker’s teachers is a photographer!  Which saved me from having to take poor old arthritic Chief to the mall and saved Robert from entertaining Tucker while I agonized over which photos to choose. While I will not spoil the holiday card photo, I will share this one with you now. […]

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I thought it was bad when somebody searched for “art” and came here.  Now, I know better. I’m not sure whether to be horrified or proud.  

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Dear Elf, Get a life.  I think everybody knows by now that I’m a novice blogger.  And prior to writing this, I had no idea how many people were talking about you.  I didn’t realize that there was this whole divided camp thing going on between moms who have nothing better to do than stupid […]

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These are Tucker’s nail clippers.  Tiny and barely sharp enough to do their job.  Sort of innocent looking. Because I suck and cut his finger when he was five months old, they are evil.  The kind of evil that makes him bleed.  The nail clippers that made us both cry were orange.  I’d hoped that […]

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Somebody I used to work with messaged me on Facebook to ask how my son is doing.  She’s never met him.  Normally, in a situation like this, I just type “Great!  He’s adorable! How are you?” and move on.  But I also used to work with her cousin. I saw him recently, and he knows […]

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So I have this nifty little plug-in that shows me where my blog traffic comes from, what spiders are spidering me and what the latest Google search terms were. I just took a look.  Google sent some poor unsuspecting soul HERE who searched for “art.” I bet that person was really pissed off.  Except he […]

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