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Life Unscripted

Scenes from a walk

May 22, 2010

I have been a negligent blogger. But I have good reasons, many of which I’ll update you with soon. To get caught up, I’ll take a page out of my how to scrapbook file and tell you about the most recent stuff first.
Today, I got up early and met my regular walking girlfriends on an [...]

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Exhaling Slowly

April 29, 2010

There are lots of remedies to help ease or eliminate the hiccups. My favorite technique when I get the hiccups is to take a deep breath, hold it as long as I possibly can, and then very, very slowly exhale, followed by a slow inhale, and then a gradual return to normal breathing. Almost always [...]

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Lesson of the year: Stereotyping

April 8, 2010

I wrote the following on Easter Sunday, 2010 – a day that will forever be burned into my memory. I plan to write a series of posts that will document my perspective of the last four weeks of my daughter’s – and my – experience in the NICU at a local community hospital that is [...]

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Almost there.

March 31, 2010

I’m almost back. Almost me again. Almost to where I can take a deep breath and relax. I can sleep, I can eat normally (as in healthy) again and I can do things for me.
So much has happened, such a huge amount of stress, that I wonder what gives me the strength to get [...]

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Shifting focus. Parteee Tyme.

March 7, 2010

There’s an end in sight to what I should call my daughter’s never-ending pregnancy. The doctors had us convinced that she would deliver early due to risk factors in this pregnancy and early contractions that started back in January. So we’ve had false start after false start, only to be sent home and my daughter [...]

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I should call this…

February 28, 2010

The year of broken things.
Well, really since the end of last year things have been falling apart around me. Material things, not family or emotional things. Last October, my daughter’s car died and it’s still dead. It needs timing belts, crank sensor, spark plugs, and a valve gasket replaced. Yeah, it can wait as [...]

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I keep going, and going, and going…

February 13, 2010

Here’s a news flash for you: I’m an overachiever. That really surprised you, didn’t it? I’ve always been that way – it’s just who I am. This works out great for me in my career because I can do the work of three people in a third of the time and this keeps me employed, [...]

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Amazing, really, but it’s more than parental pride

February 4, 2010

**Apologies to my Facebook friends who have already seen these photos ad-nauseum**
My oldest daughter, Cindy, is an amazing photographer. The word “amazing” is often overused these days, in my opinion, as the go-to adjective to describe anyone or anything with slightly more-than-mediocre or impressive skills, talent, or results. In fact, I heard it in abundance [...]

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Coming up for air

February 3, 2010

Phew… there’s been so much going on lately that I’ve been a neglectful blogger. Sometimes I don’t blog because the hugely disparate thoughts that go through my mind are hard to congeal into any sort of substance that might make sense to my peeps. So I stay quiet. That, and I’ve been swamped with work [...]

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I had to do it.

January 23, 2010

Really. I did. Not that I was on any sort of self-imposed restriction or anything like that. But when I saw this in my inbox from Lucy’s Fabrics, I couldn’t resist.
What I love about this is that it’s chocolate brown and pink and has a border print. This fabric is also 58-60” wide, so [...]

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