It will only hurt for a minute

I will admit, I don’t do shots; mainly vaccines. I mean I get my kids vaccinated, but that’s one of the husbands jobs, I leave the room when the needle comes out. I’ve lived my life in fear of shots, literally. I have a severe phobia, but that never ever made me stop for one [...]

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You meant so much to my grandmother and I remember her through you

I love cards. I have always loved cards. I enjoy email and facebook and twitter but nothing makes me happier than getting a hand written card out of the blue.  I also can not begin to tell you how much I love and treasure cards from my husband, cards of sympathy when loved ones are [...]

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what i didn’t do

I called my grandmother every day, several times a day in addition to just popping by.  I called her to just chat, to ask her about child rearing, to ask her about my health, to gossip, to talk tv shows, to fill her in on the news and the happenings in town.  She called me [...]

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Always right

I am an only child, so I have always been “older” and more responsible than others and I have envied that.  I have always tried to be perfect, write things down, be helpful, remember stuff- you know try to make life smooth and easy and try to control it, which I know can never happen, [...]

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Shot and keeps on going

5 years before I was born my dad’s friend shot him in the chest.  The bullet was about 1/4 inch from his heart.  My dad had someone drive him home & he walked into my grandparents house, white as a ghost (from all the blood loss) and asked my grandmother if she could help him.  [...]

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Mom Flow

I am the daughter of a mom who lost her mom and was raised by her grandmother, who was raised by her grandmother.  Yes it’s confusing but its kind of a pattern for awhile in our family. That’s confusing so let me explain.  My mother lost her mother when she was maybe 12 or so [...]

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Sturdy Legs

I try not to take my legs for granted.  I have spent my whole entire life watching my grandmother in pain from having polio and losing muscle in her legs.  My nephew was born last year with a short leg.  He will need many surgeries in his life to correct this short leg.  Yesterday he [...]

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CV- I am a mom

So if my CV only goes to show that I am a mom, I think I could be ok with that.  I did my corporate thing and maybe all along I’ve been meant to be a mom and only a mom.  It’s a job I love, it’s a job that never ends.  It’s a job [...]

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Sparkling Clean Contentment

I’m cleaning my bathrooms.  I hate cleaning my bathrooms.  I tell myself that I should be grateful to have bathrooms and showers and running water when so many people in this world do without, while I clean the bathrooms, because I just dread it.  I actually stopped half way through to blog about it since [...]

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Stuck in a Mice

When my child was in the NICU and we were at home, we kind of existed but didn’t live.  We just went thru the motions, like many people do when they are under stress and worried.  Since I found out my mom is sick it’s been that way. I’m forgetting things, not paying attention, not [...]

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