Merry Christmas to all, and to all - enjoy your life - it's a Chair of Bowlies!

Last year Emma came home saying; "You get what you get and you don't pitch a fit".  Thank you Ms. Sarah!  She used that mostly on us - but it was a good learning moment for Mommy and Emmi!  So, this year we had an opportunity to re-visit this lesson.A month ago, my (Meg's) parents were coming to visit, I had my Christmas cards ordered, printed, and ready to mail out.  We were prepping for our church Christmas production, and winding...

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Merry Christmas to all, and to all - enjoy your life - it's a Chair of Bowlies!

Last year Emma came home saying; "You get what you get and you don't pitch a fit".  Thank you Ms. Sarah!  She used that mostly on us - but it was a good learning moment for Mommy and Emmi!  So, this year we had an opportunity to re-visit this lesson.A month ago, my (Meg's) parents were coming to visit, I had my Christmas cards ordered, printed, and ready to mail out.  We were prepping for our church Christmas production, and winding...

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Merry Cherry Christmas!

Last Year Emma came home saying; "You get what you get and you don't pitch a fit".  Thank you Ms. Sarah!  She used that mostly on us - but it was a good learning moment for Mommy and Emmi!  So, this year I had an opportunity to re-visit this leasson.A month ago, my (Meg's) parents were coming to visit, I had my Christmas cards ordered, printed, and ready to mail out.  We were prepping on ...

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Merry Cherry Christmas!

Last Year Emma came home saying; "You get what you get and you don't pitch a fit".  Thank you Ms. Sarah!  She used that mostly on us - but it was a good learning moment for Mommy and Emmi!  So, this year I had an opportunity to re-visit this leasson.A month ago, my (Meg's) parents were coming to visit, I had my Christmas cards ordered, printed, and ready to mail out.  We were prepping on ...

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Merry Christmas, glutteny, and fooball..

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Merry Christmas, glutteny, and fooball..

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My thoughts, my thanks...

Dear friends, Dear all, Dear world.Infertility is not fair.  It hurts - it's black.  It's flat black dull cheap spray paint that covers you - but it's not you.  People have written, more than I had known who were affected by the darkness and the lies of infertility.  Statistics tell us we are not alone.  Apparent reality screams otherwise.  So we, alone, hide - thinking we know that the stats are lies, that we are really alone.  Isolated by our fears, pain, and unfair disadvantage everyone else seems...

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My thoughts, my thanks...

Dear friends, Dear all, Dear world.Infertility is not fair.  It hurts - it's black.  It's flat black dull cheap spray paint that covers you - but it's not you.  People have written, more than I had known who were affected by the darkness and the lies of infertility.  Statistics tell us we are not alone.  Apparent reality screams otherwise.  So we, alone, hide - thinking we know that the stats are lies, that we are really alone.  Isolated by our fears, pain, and unfair disadvantage everyone else seems...

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Self and disclosure. Not the same. (Bizcochito recipe enclosed!)

Tonight I watched Julie and Julia with Brad.  Minus a few moments of pausing *drinks, popcorn, oil pulling* I was mesmerized.  It left me feeling better about myself as a woman, a wife, a cook, and more in love with my husband than before.  Brad loves to cook.  He is a momma's boy - Dianne - you created a great one here! He loves his Momma, he loves his wife, and he loves to cook.  But he doesn't do all the cooking, doesn't want to do all the planning, he wants to create wonders - such as his latest - the perfect carrot...

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Self and disclosure. Not the same. (Bizcochito recipe enclosed!)

Tonight I watched Julie and Julia with Brad.  Minus a few moments of pausing *drinks, popcorn, oil pulling* I was mesmerized.  It left me feeling better about myself as a woman, a wife, a cook, and more in love with my husband than before.  Brad loves to cook.  He is a momma's boy - Dianne - you created a great one here! He loves his Momma, he loves his wife, and he loves to cook.  But he doesn't do all the cooking, doesn't want to do all the planning, he wants to create wonders - such as his latest - the perfect carrot...

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If'n I....it's my story, I'm sticking to it!

"Oh little star of Volvo" Found this on the puter - {Papa J and Emma loved our car too...}If'n I needed encouragement, I came to the right place! I have to say, after my last cry fest I thought perhaps this blogging thing needs to be curtailed! Perhaps I should self therapy somewhere else! BUT NO!  I couldn't believe the next morning and my dear sweetest of the sweetest friends had actually not only ready my sniff fest BUT chosen to pray...

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If'n I....it's my story, I'm sticking to it!

"Oh little star of Volvo" Found this on the puter - {Papa J and Emma loved our car too...}If'n I needed encouragement, I came to the right place! I have to say, after my last cry fest I thought perhaps this blogging thing needs to be curtailed! Perhaps I should self therapy somewhere else! BUT NO!  I couldn't believe the next morning and my dear sweetest of the sweetest friends had actually not only ready my sniff fest BUT chosen to pray...

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Please Wait!

Which moment do I write about?The moment of oh no, or oh no - or how about oh no.  Oh no B went to bed and the plants in the planters are still outside - never mind that it weighs in as a small elephant - but I managed to drag it inside.  I lost all all alllll my plants several years ago during an unfortunate winter move cross country.  Turns out when you park a moving van in a winter storm over night - it doesn't matter how toasty you are inside.  The plants still mush and disintegrate.  Completely.  Every last...

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tadpoles, butterflies, yeast and dreams of Tuscani....

Jo just dropped her bottle again - that makes three times.  I don't pick up anything more than twice - (wait - kitchen timer just went off, I'll be right back!)  wow... honestly, it's fourty min later - really right back huh?I used to be an avid journalier.  I have boxes of them from the time I could write.  My first (that I remember) was a hello kitty journal that locked! It locked and only I had the key - so very very cool.  I got it for being brave when a mole was removed off the end of my nose.  Yep, had it not...

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short on charge, not on words...

Darn it.  I am lazy and yep, I admit it.  I have much to say, but only fifteen min. of charge time to say it!  I could go find the cord, plug it in, have all the time in the world - but that would require getting out of bed, disturbing B and that just won't do.  For one, he is my heat source - and secondly the peaceful cadence of his breath would be disturbed.  He is a light sleeper - much more so than me.....Oh, thirteen min. to go... no wait, make that twelve... grrr...Have I told you that I love being married to a real...

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In the light...

I'm sitting for a moment in the dining room. The sound of the dishwasher is a blissful noise at the moment - last night we lost our water - today it was restored. For that I am beyond thankful. Jojo is asleep, I can hear her music softly in the background. Brad took Emmi out for a bit to run to Wal-mart - I escaped that tragedy! BUT as I am sitting here I noticed something, and HAD to just write about it. The light coming in through the sun-room windows is hitting the leaves of a wreath I made. As it glows through I am instantly brought back...

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Challenged by surrounding... OR Confessions of a craft junky

Ok, I admit it - I am a craft junky. Problem is, they are mostly in my head. I love to look at ideas, at colors, papers, textures, and photos. Then I dream of way's to put them together - Colors and textures - even pictures of textures are like candy to me. Wondering what I am talking about? Well, this new layout - it just makes me salivate like some might look at a piece of cherry pie! Texture, color - well, the digital world has taken all this to a new level the last several years. Gone are the piles of papers and boxes of different scissors....

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Let Freedom Ring!

What's so great about America? So many things - but one of them is good old fashioned freedom. Freedom to push your product, service, or thought and ring from the hiltops! Well I am looking for a way to gain from this freedom too! Brad and I LOVE free stuff. Ever heard him preach on a Sunday? He loves to get free stuff. Our tv, ipod, and phones have been free - so let's try for something more! Will you please help me get some free help for Josie? Well, if you finished listening to his sermons you would realize that nothing is ever really...

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25 Random things about ME

Well, are you on face book? Most likely if you are reading this, you are. Well, have you gotten a "25 random things about ..." yet? Well, I have gotten several. Supposedly if you get one you are supposed to make one and then send it back out to 25 people, including the one that sent it to you! Well, on face book you can only send to 20 people at one time. I thought, YOUR KIDDING ME... I am going to go to all this work and only send it to 20 people? No way. I figured if I am going to share my 25 random things, than I might as well send it...

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