To remember, and not ever forget:
Originally posted in August, 2006.
Last year, a few weeks from now, I was driving my husband to the airport. He had a backpack, loaded with insect repellent, changes of shorts, flashlights, sunscreen, hand sanitizer, t-shirts, and various items the Red Cross suggested he bring with him on his way south. [...]

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If you haven’t already, be sure to nominate you favorite post for August for the Seattle Mom Blogs’ Post of the Month contest.
Anyone can nominate and be nominated (regardless of where they live), but only Seattle Mom Blogs members can vote.  We’re like the academy, or the electoral college… or something!  We wield ULTIMATE COSMIC POWER!
Nominations [...]

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Somehow a post about Bible camp turned into a conversation of lawsuits against school systems…. Which reminded me of this story.
A lawsuit arose in Idaho after school officials scrubbed face paint off of two kids in junior high. It seems that the school officials used rubbing alcohol, fingernail polish remover, and industrial cleaner. On the [...]

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Everyone once in a while, I see a young girl with a bowl cut, or even worse, a vintage, authentic Dorothy Hamill wedge. This really chaps my hide. Why? Because no little girl, no matter how tom- boyish or sporty, wants hair like that, at that age. This is the age of wanting to be [...]

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I’ve been a participant in a beta site, http://beta.cre8buzz.com, for a few weeks now.  Cre8Buzz is designed as a way for bloggers to network, meet new bloggers, and get more readership.
First I’d better probably warn you that I’m one of those people… you know, the ones who run like lemmings to sign up for the NEXT [...]

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Yesterday I had an email exchange that I just HAD to share.  I’m posting here so as not to embarass my new pen-pal by posting on the blog that she reads.
Subject: a friend from italy
I’m a “desperate” Italian housewife, mother of a fifteen teenager only child who makes me crazy!
I almost every day read your [...]

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We all, from time to time, meet people whose internal censor does not kick in and scream at them, “NO!!!! Do not say that!!!” After talking with some friends lately, I’ve been reflecting upon the questions that moms often face from others who really, truly don’t know that they’re being impolite or rude or prying [...]

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Nobody ever wants to admit that there are gender roles in marriage. Actually, I don’t know if that’s true. Let me rephrase that; I don’t want to admit that there are gender roles in my marriage. I like to think that The King and I are equals. That we both pull our own weight. That [...]

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I wish I could run like Forrest. I feel the need to run until all of my frustration, anger, confusion and hate were gone. I’m sure I could run all the way to China.
Sometimes our adoption journeys feel like you are on a non-stop run. A person finds themselves trying to remain patient, calm and [...]

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Now, more than ever, we need your offers of prayers and support. Not for me, or Kid, or anyone else here in the house. It’s someone outside. A mouse.
Odd, random things always seem to happen the few times I get away. When I checked in by phone last night to see what DH was doing, [...]

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