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Parenting posts that include the touching, the embarrassing, the annoying, the typical, the atypical, the whatever. You just have to be a parent to get these.

Please don’t tell me that my child will catch up.   He won’t catch up. He will make incredible strides, and will work hard, as will his friend who is only now taking tentative steps using a walker. She’s six. These kids of ours will work to accomplish goals that include eating, making eye contact […]

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I’m not a big church person. I pray, I believe in miracles, I believe in wonder and that unexplainable, unimaginable awe exists above the creational abilities present solely in the minds of men. I do not believe that there is nothing more once we die. Maybe it’s because I can’t. It’s painful to realize that […]

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Here’s to eeking out a last-minute thankful post.  It’s been a crazy week, a crazier weekend and while I’ve been too busy and sleep deprived to think about what I’m thankful for, I realize that these are the moments in life that are the exactly perfect times in which to be thankful.  So here goes. […]

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If you had a chance to go back in time and do something over, would you? Do you have regrets? I have a tattoo on my ankle that says “To Die With No Regrets” (yes, I triple-checked the Chinese characters after hearing the horror stories of tattoo artists giving you the “I’m an asshole” one […]

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If you’ve visited Finding Ninee in the past week or so, you know that in addition to today being the day the US adopted the Declaration of Independence, it is also the day, four years ago, that Tucker made his debut appearance in the world and forever altered and expanded my personal knowledge of love […]

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Ah, the Fourth of July. We’ve had some good ones.  Last summer, we celebrated youth at the beach and will be doing the same next week. There’s something about sand, sun, and fireworks that make summer summer in a way that it never is up to that point. A couple of years ago, we rented […]

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