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Everyone knows that our house is in a perpetual state of chaos. We spend countless hours looking for lost items. Currently, I know that my pink craft scissors are MIA (scary) and a bottle of baby shampoo can\’t be found. This is so normal that, in fact, our kids think that \”Where are mommy\’s keys?\”…

Wow. I knew it had been a while since I last blogged, but, man….two and a half months? Time flies when you are stuck in the bowels of hell….I mean, teaching seventh grade language arts at the end of the school year. Yep, I was \”the closer\” again this year. I took over a class…

Yesterday, I did not want to come to school. DID NOT. AT ALL! I had been off on spring break for three weeks. Three more wouldn\’t have been enough. I\’ve been strugging with my health a bit, and my weight, and my emotional well being. I really didn\’t want to rejoin the land of the…

I just finished reading My Sister\’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. This is our book club\’s April selection. OH MY GOD! What a fantastic book! In short, Anna is born to be a cord blood donor for her older sister Kate who has a rare form of leukemia. Thirteen years of donating this and that, from…

Sam and Jack were baptized Sunday at St. Paul UMC. Here are some pictures my sister in law took. Click on any image to enlarge it!