tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62927852011-10-02T10:10:44.174-05:00Wife and stay-home Mom ponders "big people" thoughts, talks about her kids, praises God, and invites you to join her.SGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210067252287690815noreply@blogger.comBlogger7311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292785.post-58178150508053720462011-08-29T10:52:00.001-05:002011-08-29T10:53:01.397-05:00

Found this on Pinterest and I loved it so much I re-vamped it for school. If I could learn to do this life would be so much sweeter!

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Having three kids with the same Mom and Dad you expect similarities.  All my children started life with blond hair and blue eyes, like their Daddy. All my children were born earlier than my due date after my blood pressure began to rise and the doctors determined it was just time. All three were born on Wednesday mornings, after a light rain. Yes, all three.  But that last one… well her delivery

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Love our little lamb in the Church Christmas Program.  Rhett was a in the chorus of the play.  Cousin Sam, so pretty as a bible time tourist.  The performers  Kolby's choir concert  Her 7th grade girls Choir was amazing! Rhett's 3rd grade from Spring Valley provided music for the Hewitt Tree lighting. It was cold out there! Our Elusive Elf!

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Ella Kate loved our hotel with the hot pink chair. We matched the black, white and pink Christmas decor. The Tree at the Galleria Lunch at the American Girl Store with Mama K, Sari, Mom and Kit! Mama K made her day by giving her Lanni as an early Christmas present. 

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After a rough Fall, I am grateful for many things. I have never been more grateful for the health of my children, my husband and myself as I am this Thanksgiving. I am thankful that despite her diabetes, Ella Kate is considered healthy.  Sometimes that is hard to wrap my mind around as the insulin she gets 6 to 8 times a day is basically her life support. But Ella Kate is thriving and has met or

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I will not lie. This has been a tough Fall for our family. Ella Kate's type I diabetes diagnoses on September 8th rocked our family's world.  Then in the middle of October I had my gall bladder removed. I either had or developed a pretty nasty urinary tract infection and ended up in the ER two days after surgery feeling the worst I can ever remember.  Later we found out I also had bacterium...

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Two weeks ago tonight I was trying to wrap my brain around the 12 hours I had just lived through. Being told EK has Type 1 diabetes, rushing home to pack for the hospital, pulling my kids out of school to tell them and then have to leave them, the nightmare traffic jam in Hillsboro, the cries of Ella Kate because she did not understand what was going on, the precious sweet ER angel nurses who got

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September 7th 2010 Ella Kate started preschool at our church. She loves her school, teachers and friends. Sporting her Gymboree Girls Rock outfit, Hello Kitty back pack, and Sketcher light up shoes, EK said she looked like a Rock Star! Ella Kate is excited about my friend Ms. Susan being her teacher and meeting her new teacher Ms Brittany. About 24 hours after these pictures were taken, Ella

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Tomorrow Ella Kate will have a biopsy in the morning to determine whether she has celiac disease in addition to diabetes. I am praying that it will be negative and covet your prayers as well. Thank you. UPDATE: Ella Kate did great for the procedure Saturday morning and we were dismissed late that afternoon. The Dr. Said he did not SEE any signs of Celiac disease in the small intestine or stomach

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I AM GOING TO COPY A NOTE I ADDED TO FACEBOOK THIS MORNING ABOUT THE LAST 24 HOURS. IT WAS A SHOCK FOR US AS WELL. Ella Kate has diabetes. For some reason I can type that easier than I can say it. It's been less than 24 hours since Dr Dewbre gave the orders for Ella Kate's blood to be drawn and blood sugars to be checked. That is the moment I somehow knew for sure that my nagging suspicion

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The Third Grader The Seventh Grader The start of the 2010 school year. It's gonna be a great year!

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Tonight was "Meet the Teacher" at Rhett's school. For Rhett and for all of us it was more of a "visit the teacher" because we have known and loved her for a while now. I am so excited for Rhett as he starts third grade with Mrs Kup! Kolby loved third grade with her and I have an idea Rhett will too. Rhett needs school. He needs a place to channel his energy and interests. He would never freely

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Being the silly photo snapping Mom I am, I took this of K as we headed off to 7th grade registration this morning. Great experience for the most part. K is happy with her locker, schedule and things over all. We got her textbooks, found and opened her locker, found all of her classrooms and figured out drop-off and pick-up logistics. Everything was great until I was in the cafeteria talking to

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Our family spent last week on the Texas coast with my sister and parents. It was the longest family vacation we have had since moving to Waco over 8 years ago and we loved every minute of it. We had lots of fun in Corpus and in Port Aransas. As soon as I get unpacked I want to blog all about it. :)  But first things first. Off the vaccum the sand out of our suitcases!

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So here is our little Lady. Actually she is not as little anymore. She is up to 17 pounds. She was a mere 5 pounds when we got her the first week in December. But at 10 months they say she is practically full grown. Still so puppy like, we just love our Lady. She is the sweetest dog. But lately Lady has a new fascination. GECKOS. She is obsessed with them! Barks at them from the inside if

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I had already stopped blogging regularly before Facebook, but Facebook was the nail that sealed the blogging coffin for me for a while.  However, after a year or so of one sentence status updates and facebook marketing spam, I realized I really missed blogging. I'm now trying to make a blog comeback not so much for anyone else but me.  I need somewhere to record thoughts, and maybe get some

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So... I'm sort of  a project junkie.It's like an addiction. I can't stop. Even when I want to stop, the ideas, they just pop in my head and haunt my dreams.I always have a project or 12 going AND I seem to have a hard time with something they call finishing???But let me be clear. I don't actually enjoy doing the projects. I love thinking them up. I love having them complete. The doing and

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Ella Kate's 4th Birthday started out with the breakfast of her choosing.. Daylight Donuts! She got to go to Build a bear and create her new friend Amy Elly witha gift card from Kolby & Rhett. That night we had a little family party withthe five of us, Sari, Mama K and Papa! She loved her birthday! The next day she got to take princess crown cookies to celebrate her birtday at MDO.

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I honestly can not remember the last time I sat down and blogged. I will blame it on Facebook but really it's just that life got a little crazy about the time I burned out on blogging. But I miss having this place to sit and write out more than a half sentence status at a time. So maybe I will come back to blogging.  At least for tonight I will pucker up to this blog and hope it becomes a

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For the last almost 4 years there has been unfinished business in my community. In the last two weeks, that business has been taken care of FINALLY. Over the years I have cried many tears and spent many, many hours wondering, debating and brainstorming the  hows and whys of this case while praying that God would give proof of what we already knew in our hearts.  I, the person who cannot stand

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If I start talking about this it might be June before I'm able to stop. So I'm going to try to keep it short...or shortish.  The trial started this week. On our TV it is on channel 132. You can watch it live on centraltexasnow.com. The Waco Trib has a reporter there giving updates every 10 to 15 minutes on their news blog... bless her heart.  The last two days, I have accomplished next to

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Happy New Year from our little family to you! 

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These are our Christmas cards. Someday I am going to mail them. Merry Christmas!

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The other day I had my blog's Holiday playlist blaring from the computer when Chris Rice's Instrumental version of Be Still My Soul came to the top of the shuffle list. (It's #3) Kolby said "That one is pretty, but not really Chirtmasy. Did you put it on there on accident?" No Kolby, I didn't. If there is ever a time in the year when I feel the need to be still, it is in the month of December.

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That's right! We did it! Rob and I finally agreed to be dog owners again. The kids have wanted a puppy ever since Berkley died. I just was not ready. And frankly neither were my kids. BUT I think Rhett and Kolby are old enough to share the responsibilities of pet ownership. So this year when Rhett said Mom all I really want for Christmas is a dog, I couldn't think of a reason to say no. After

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Yesterday we found out that Kolby was one of four 6th graders from her school to advance to the next level of PTA's National Reflections Contest. We of course are so proud her for entering and her creativity. She did a great job taking and editing her picture. And YES, she did it all on her own. (As her Mom, it's OK to toot her horn.. Right? :) The theme this year was "Beauty is..." Students

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We are getting a puppy for Christmas this year! Actually the kids and I are leaving to get her tomorrow after school. She is in Northern Arkansas. We will stay with my friend Susan 2 nights in Little Rock and hope to be back home Saturday night. The attached picture was taken by the current owner on 11-28-09. The puppy is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who will be 10 weeks old on Thursday.

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Somehow I lost my playlists in November. But now they are found!  The Holiday one will play automatically but the everyday one is there too if you want it. I have missed my Music!

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For my 3 friends who are not on face book but who might check this blog...This is a great story. Happy Thanksgiving! P.S. GET ON FACEBOOK! Reilly: A Thanksgiving reunion Posted using ShareThis

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This is a post about this day 15 years ago. 15 years ago today was not a relief. It was not what I prayed for. It was hard. And sad. My heart broke in ways I had not expected And I was angry that she was gone. Angry that she had to live all bottled up in that body that didn't work for 10 years. Sad that people who saw her didn't really understand. They didn't, no they couldn't, know her. She

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Ok. Not really. But growing up in San Angelo not far from ASU (Angelo State) I was very familiar with the men's and women's highrises.  I went to church really close to these two buildings and could see them from the church play ground. From the time I was a very little, I called them the twin high-risers, or the girl and the boy. This morning they took the girl (AKA the women's

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Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

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Here's is the deal. I have not blogged much in the last year. However I come to this blog everyday because of that little playlist over there.  It's my music. I don't own an Ipod (though both my kids do) and the stereo in our house is so old I'm not even sure it works. So this computer, this playlist is my music. This playlist is so me. I love every song for one reason or another. I used to try

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( Please realize I am preaching to myself here. If anything, I need to heed these words more than anyone I know which is why I felt the need to write it out. I in no way want to come across like I have the world figured out...FAR FROM IT!!!) Here are some random thoughts that won't stop rambling around in my head.  I don't want to bore my facebook friends with them in multiple status updates,

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Ok. Hello September! Can you believe it? Take a breath... This blog is my place to write all those cute kid things down so I don't forget them. Lately (well for about the last year) I haven't been very good at that. SOOOO I'm going to start now with this post. Ella Kate cracks me up about 200 times a day. The girls is just funny stuff. Today she is starting back to Mother's Day Out and she and I

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Will I ever stop being blown away how much kids grow in one year? ESPECIALLY MY KIDS!!! These are pictures taken last summer at ACU and this summer at ACU. MY GOODNESS!

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EK will be three in a week or so! Can you believe that??? I have so many Ella Kate stories that I need to write down before we forget them. But for now I'm just going to post some of these pics taken to put on her "Dora" birthday invitations from Wal-Mart's photo center. Before you go thinking I am creative to do a photo invite, I must confess. They did have any Dora fill-in-the-blank invitations

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I'm back! (And I found fun new blog skins! :) Thanks Hot bliggity blog!That little 7 day computer break was not as successful as I thought it would be. More on that later. Maybe. But suffice it to say I have decided that the computer is too ingrained into my life to quit cold turkey. Not even sure that would be good. But taking a break was good. I know I am on here too much at times.A few random

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It is with great fear and trembling that I write this. My kids have challenged me to turn the computer off for one week. Yes, 7 days. No e-mail, on-line bill paying, on-line shopping, Craigslist, Facebook, or Bejeweled blitz. And no blogging. Not just internet...no computer. No typing. Nothing. Nada. YIKES!It's not that I am letting my kids boss me around. It's something I have been thinking

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If you have the sound on and if you are reading this today, you are hearing one of my all time favorite songs! As much as I DO NOT like the Dixie Chicks politics, I LOVE THIS VERSION!!!I have loved this song since I sang it in my 5th grade music program at Travis Elementary Thanks Mrs Bates! The Carpenters have a great version of this song as did The Tone Rangers in the movie The Break-up. (

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I lost my camera and could not take my traditional teacher pictures this morning. But I found it and took after school pictures. All three of my kids seemed to have grown so much this year! But especially KOLBY! Our girl is getting so tall! Love these days and these pictures but they are pulling a bit at my Mommy heart.In other news, we have had a really crazy week. The end of school is always

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Since the end of last October, The Panther Patch has dominated so many parts of my brain...not to mention my to-do list! Today it officially opened. All the projects are finished. No more building. It feels SO good to be able to say that! It was a sweet morning...even the weather cooperated! Click over to The Green Panther if you want to see pictures.I bet I took 200 pictures of the P-patch today

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Tonight I have too many thoughts for Facebook so for the second time in 4 days I am blogging. (No. It is not 2005. AMAZING huh? )Today I had a little afternoon party in the garden. We had cucumber sandwiches, thumb print cookies (Yes. The old recipe from Mac Eplin's in Abilene!) sparkling lemonade, pinwheels, iced sugar cookies, snickerdoodles, chocolate chips, sweet tea... Now that you are

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How long has it been since I blogged? OH. MY.Since I never blog and no one really reads this anymore I feel pretty safe just thinking "on blog" tonight. Here are a few thoughts... (well, 8 to be exact)1. The Panther Patch is almost finished. I love working on it. I am thrilled to see it all come together, love having kids out there planting, love organizing it and imagining all that can be done

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I was looking at this old blog tonight and realized i have not posted many pics of the kids lately. They are growing faster than I can comprehend. So here is are a few stills of our not so still kids!Napolean want to be Kolby's friend.The quitesential 7 year old.SibsIce skatersKolby loves ice skating and wishes I would drive her to Austin for lessons every week. Not.Ready to hit the ice. Brave

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THE STATE OF TEXASVS.MATTHEW DEE BAKERPRIMARY OFFENSE: MURDER1st DEGREE FELONYIN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:THE GRAND JURY, for the County of McLennan, State of Texas, duly selected, empaneled, sworn, charged and organized as such at the March Term, A.D., 2009, of the 54th Judicial District Court for said County, upon their oaths present in and to said Court at said term that

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Well February was a blur.The last two weekends I have uncharacteristically been out of town. I feel a bit out of it. No a lot out of it. For the last three weeks Rob has been keeping crazy late hours. (He is at work as I type this at 9:15PM) I have been completely consumed with getting this outdoor classroom built and the absolute needless drama that surrounds trying to do anything this big with

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My baby girl is 11 years old today. Wow! 11 years. She has brought so much joy to my life. I love you Kolby Sue!Here are some random shots from the last 11 years....

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Laura Lee Myers died at noon today. Please pray for her family.For more on this see this article.http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/39408242.html

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Laura Lee Myers is a wife and mom to two girls who is currently in the ICU at Providence Hospital on a respirator fighting pneumonia caused by a strep bacteria. Her kidneys have also stopped functioning. She needs a miracle to live. This Mom from Teague Texas had the flu this week. She started feeling awful and experiencing great pain Saturday night. By Sunday morning (yesterday) she was in ICU

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Really I do. I keep thinking of things to post but I haven't actually sat down to type them out since Facebook came along. I'm praying for my soul to still. I have been sorta on edge since summer and I can't pinpoint why. But all really is well. Busy. Overwhelmingly busy at times, but in a good way, if there is a good way to be overwhelmingly busy! :)I have spent a lot of time outside Spring

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1. It is not nice to make fun of the President, no matter who he is. It just isn't.(P.S. This is not directed at anyone I know, just at this wacko on the radio this morning who made me embarrassed to be a Republican for few minutes. He. Is. Our. President. Respect the office!)2. I think I could spend $5000 in Sam's in one trip and not buy one single food item. (OK. Maybe a diet coke and a

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All three of you have probably noticed that I haven't been too good at keeping up with this blog lately. There is a reason for that. I've been immersed in a PTA project that quite frankly has taken more time and energy than I ever imagined. BUT it is coming together and I am so excited about it! If you are really interested you can visit my current project's blog at svegreenpanther on blogspot. (

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Then there was Facebook. :)Well the first week of 2009 has come and gone. The older kids are back in school, Ella Kate and I are REALLY READY for her school to start next week, Rob's grad classes start next week and PTA deadlines are breathing down my neck. It seems like with PTA, no matter how early I start, it should have been started earlier. But it will all get done eventually, I HOPE!I am

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I thought I'd end 2008 on a good note with a big smile! This picture makes me laugh every time I see it! It was not posed. EK ran off when we were changing her last night and this is how we found her. So much like her Mommy!Happy New Year!

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I don't know why but for some reason I'm almost happy to see Christmas 2008 go, almost in that "don't let the door hit you on the way out!" kind of way. Not that it was a bad Christmas. It was actually a great Christmas! I loved our Christmas with our families... but it's over and I'm ready to move on. I have to admit though that this year I couldn't get all into Christmas like I usually do. In

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I wrote a Christmas letter this year. Sadly, I never had it printed and actually put in the Christmas cards. So I'm posting it here to make myself feel better! Merry Christmas!Dearest Friends and Family,Can you believe Christmas is upon us and it is almost 2009? The last time we sent a Christmas letter we were telling the world that we were expecting our third baby. Ella Kate is now two and half

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Here's an article that Twilight author Stephenie Meyer wrote for Ensign magazine. It may surprise some of you that a "vampire writer" would write this type article. But for those of you who love the fictional world Mrs. Meyer created for us in Forks, you will have no problem recognizing the heart behind the pen. Enjoy! Christmas stories happen in the most everyday places. I was part of one not

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It sounds so much older than 38! And so much older than I feel! But here I am. 39.This may be the last year I admit to my age openly!I have been sick and still am, so I haven't thought much about today. But as I sit here now reflecting on this birthday, my favorite new-to-me Christmas song keeps playing in my head. (If you have your volume up, you're hearing it now too.) It's called "Thankful" by

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Now to get the 199 other things checked off my Christmas to-do list! In the meantime enjoy the "Christmas Card Attempts" show below. Someday I'm going to get brave and send one of these as our real card! Still not sure I have picked this year's picture yet... Ooops! Make that 200 things to do again! Off I go!

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Last Saturday our family joined 1000's of other Midway Panther Fans in Texas Stadium to cheer on our team. Our little family, or at least parts of it, have been to almost all the the Midway football games this year. Rob has a passion for High School football so having "a home team" again has been really fun for him, and for all of us. When we found out the panthers were playing in Texas Stadium,

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I will not blog or Facebook again until my house is Christmas ready. I just won't! So to inspire me, (and maybe you too!) here is last year's Slide tour that I put together for Boo Mama's Holiday tour. Actually, I was a bit late and called mine "the after tour!" but still. Hope to get it all up so we can savor the season.Happy decking the halls bloggies!

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Rhett's family turkey project. Yes. I'm proud of that sweet boy. Always! May you and yours enjoy full tummies and full hearts as you reflect on the blessings of a full life!Happy Thanksgiving!

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Dazzled. Two weeks ago that word took on a bit different meaning for me than it does today. Funny how a word can instantly change meanings just depending on the subject or the context around which it is used.Do you have minute to follow me down this twisting path? It might take a while and I'm not sure where we will end up. Well, OK then. Don't say I didn't warn you... Let's go!Webster's version:

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I can hardly believe that Thanksgiving is next week! This month has flown by. I did not think November was going to be too busy, but I was wrong. Rob is snowed under with graduate school and work at the moment. He seriously works on something 16 hours a day. I can't wait for this semester to be over for him. It seems the kids are growing like weeds right now. Things i bought three months ago

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Last night Kolby was excited to watch the election returns. Even though I tried to hide it, I was not. I thought about not turning on the TV at all, but it was actually Kolby's homework to watch returns and fill out a red/blue states map. So we tuned in around 8PM.You may or may not know that I have worked hard not to be too political during this election. That is very unlike me, but I just felt

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Just a quick post to say we had a great Halloween!Here is EK with her MDO class on Thursday. We got a lot of mileage out of that kitty costiume! Aren't they cute!AND My Dad seems to be doing better. His pain is finally being managed. Hopefully he will be able to start rehabbing soon. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers. Please continue to remember my Dad as this is going to be a long

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Lately I have had too much to blog about or not enough. When there is too much I don't have the patience to condense it down into readable form. When there's not enough, I don't feel like putting forth the effort. Plus I refuse to be political. Anywhere. not. even. here. I just won't drag myself into that, even though it would be so easy to go there!So having made all the excuses I can for my

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Today marked the close of the soccer season for the FC PANTHERS! With a hard loss today, they finished 4-2-1 for the season. (We missed you Thomas!) This was a tougher season for the boys as they moved to the big fields and had to play longer quarters with goalies, but they did well enough to get this Mama's heart pumping more than one Saturday! It's so fun to watch these boys as they mature

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I don't put much "church talk" on this blog. Today is church talk. But I think this is something all churches are going to have to deal with soon, regardless of creed or denomination. On her blog this week Judy Thomas summarized what Scot McKnight said about Reaching the Next Generation at the Zoe Nashville conference this year. If you have ever had a problem explaining to your parents why the

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Last week was one of the most stressful weeks I have ever lived. So I guess now I am beyond stressed? :) Nothing big or horrible happened but so much happened in so many arenas of life. I am just really happy last week is over. This week is also going to be busy, but more of a normal busy, not a meeting every night, 8 things on the calendar everyday, newspaper articles, public hearings, hours of

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I have come to the conclusion that some things just aren't safe to say unless you have a private blog. Truly, I'm too tired to go private so please understand if I just pull some posts after a day or two.Also know I am OK. I was really worried about yesterday and having to talk in front of people, but God got me through it.As fate would have it, I ended up in the news which is NOT AT ALL WHAT I

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My sweet Mom is always e-mailing me "chicken soup" like stories and inspirational stuff. And while I enjoy them, well, you know me and my take on forwards! But, I think these two stories are really pretty cool in a Paul Harvey-esque kind of way. Hope you do to!STORY NUMBER ONEMany years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for

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Today is the Teddy Bear parade at Ella Kate's MDO. Admittedly we didn't do much too dress up our "float" but, the participants sure dressed up! Tu-tu cute! Ella Kate insisted on wearing her tu-tu to school today. Sure her teacher will love me for that came diaper change time! I'm sure I'll have more pictures this afternoon.It's another crazy busy week in La Casa de Groz. Rob has a HUGE project

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My new answer to just about anything?Yeah.It's been another one of those weeks of sleepless nights, busy days, and general chaos and pandemonium. So for self preservation and and the doctoring of my frayed nerves, I declare that this week is officially whatever dude week in la casa de Groz. It's a feeble attempt at letting stress roll off my back like water off a duck, but it's an attempt. Want

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Today I am taking the day off to do all the things I should be doing anyway but can't ever seem to get done because I'm too busy doing things that have to be done first.If you totally understood what I said in that last sentence by reading it just once, you get me. If not, you may never, so just shake your head and give us a courtesy read.Today I am not leaving the house except to pick the kids

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We had Rhett's ALL STAR SPORTS party Friday, just a week after his real birthday! I let Rhett pick what we would do for this party. After we eliminated all the $10 per person options, he just wanted to play with his friends in a gym. Gotta love 7 year old boys! It was a bit more complicated than it sounds though.Just hanging out.Score!Pinata baseball! Last Wednesday (about 48 hours before the

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IKE!!!Where IKE was when I posted this.Where IKE is now. (updated live by NOAA)

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