When I first found out she was coming to us, I laughed in shock to the seven month old staring at me and my positive test ( Read more... )

Someone reminded me this morning that I still have a Livejournal. I still love it, and you. I am blogging more... I dunno... semi-professionally.. on my new domain. I am on FB and Twitter a lot. LJ is a sacred place for me to vent and totally be myself, but then when I only do that once in awhile I feel like a user. Silly girl.

(I stopped posting my ( Read more... )

... as her BIRTHDAY is only a few weeks away ( Read more... )

First,
Our Christmas By the #sMembers of Burton/Capriotti fam with some form of the stomach flu: 5 (better than Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

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(Started this about 5 hours ago, when it was actually happening ( Read more... )

15 years old... a beautiful girl, a wonderful daughter, and an amazing big sister! She is having a great time in her first year of high school... has joined the debate team and Snowball, as well as choir. I'm so excited for what is to come for her, as she seems determined to have the true fun and fulfilling high school experience.

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Miranda... is a big girl. She drinks from a cup and not a bottle. She sleeps in a bed and not a crib. She calls her baby sister "Kaity" and not "Kay-kay," calls Sammie "dog" and not "dog-dog," responds to "I love you" with "I love you," counts to 10 - skipping 7 because it is her preference to do so, and sings the ABC song using the highlights ( Read more... )

I was just looking at a picture of a friend's new baby. I remember how Kaity fit so perfectly into the "nuzzle" position when she was born. I felt so guilty that I wasn't experiencing the closeness with her that I had with Miranda. But whenever I held her, she curled into my neck and shoulder as if we were made for each other. And of course, we are ( Read more... )

A friend reminded me today that 50 is supposedly the new 30. What exactly is that all about? I mean, I'm all for it in the sense that it makes my parents younger, but what does it make me? Like, 12? Anyway, I love being where I am, which is actually *in* my early (VERY EARLY) 30s. I feel like I'm truly in the prime, or a prime. When a friend of ( Read more... )