I began the day feeling like I'd lost something very important to me. A little grief-stricken, to be honest, about the election results and a friend's loss last night. I was missing that someone I share my hard times with and realizing how much strength I gain from him. He lifts me up ( Read more... )

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My sister in law is going to appear in a reality show on Oxygen on February 7th. So weird!! You can see a picture of her in today's Irvine, CA paper ( Read more... )

Today has been an adventure so far, in fact, there's not a day in the past three months that you couldn't say that about. It seems that with three that things are suddenly always on the go and there's always something going wrong. So the real art to the parenting becomes dealing with those moments and happilly gliding along anyway. In fact, I've ( Read more... )

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Today was definitely different, it'll stand out in my mind for a while anyway. The reason will probably begin with last night. I looked for books on babies and sleep yesterday and found a few. I sent Patrick to the library to pick them up, when he got back with them I started reading through them, kind of perusing ( Read more... )

My oldest started school today, wow. It's hard to believe really. It doesn't seem all that longer ago we brought her home, and it isn't really, five years is still pretty young, but almost a third of the life she'll live in our home. Gillian has been a real blessing to us. She has the sweetest of temperments and is always willing to help. She's ( Read more... )

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Our little darling girl was born 8 days early on June 30, 2006. I haven't yet taken the time to type an entry, just to write one. It was quite the surprise to have her so early, especially when I was having such a hard time with the pregnancy. It was a prayer that I really didn't think would be answered.

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I wish Day 1 was an indicator of what Day 2 and Day 3 would be like. However, that's not the case. Day 2 was horrible and Day 3 is only a slight improvement.

Day 2 Highlights

• Slept from midnight until 4:30 with two feedings in there, then couldn't get Cora back to sleep after the 4:30 am feeding until 6 am.
• Liam coming into the house dripping wet ( Read more... )