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Down! Split em’, Hit, Stay, Black Jack!This was my mantra last weekend in the windowless paradise
of the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas.
Black Jack was the name of the game for my husband and I and another
mom/dad team from the hood, as we morphed into hip high rollers for 48
hours. This trip was months in the making for my friend Annie ...
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These two
little words, usually spoken in the wee hours of the morning are able to evoke
some BIG emotion. As you know here in the Mid West, our kids rarely get one of
these special days. ( it’s the prairie, snow doesn’t scare us.) But this morning I got the wake-up call
kids dream of. My guys had just
started rustling around under their ...
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It’s Monday morning and my
house is fabulously quiet, except for the Oscar Peterson jazz CD playing on the
stereo, and the sound of melted snow trickling off my roof. I have this glorious solitude
for about 45 more minutes, when I will go and get Tru from kindergarten, feed
him lunch and get him ready for the play-date happening here this ...
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We call it by many names...yelling,
shouting, raising our voices, screaming, and my personal favorite, hollering.
(It’s the country girl in me.)Just
reading these verbs makes me slightly uncomfortable, and guilt ridden. Yelling is
something I personally loathe, but that can truthfully be a part of my life
with little boys. I have
“spared ...
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I don’t
know if it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, not enough daily exercise, or lack of
sleep, but I am beginning to get the feeling I might truly be getting, O-L-D. I’m now officially in my
late-thirties and I know I’m not really “old”, but I’ve certainly shifted
demographics a bit in the past few years. Case in point: when I watched the last ...
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