Ever since I got my cancer diagnosis I have felt myself fortunate that my children are too young to be afraid of the word cancer. In fact, the three youngest were there when I got the news. And they were there when the counselor came in to talk to me afterward. And [...]
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I have been hooked on Masterpiece Theater for the past 5 weeks. I haven’t been this into it since The Forsyte Saga. How could you not love the disturbingly flawed Soames? I can’t think of Damian Lewis as anyone else but Soames! It started with the MT version of Charlotte Bronte’s [...]
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I just got an email with the news that Gordon B. Hinckley, our Prophet has died. He has been the prophet for my entire adult life. I read his biography while I was in college and I came to love and appreciate how hard he has worked for our church, his whole life. [...]
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BJay after Asher’s haircut:
“Asher, do you like your curls?”
Asher:
“No. I used to love them, but I broke up with them. Now I like my hair flat.”
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Gabe asked for an apple the other day so I gave him a whole apple and he sat at the table eating it while I was talking to my mom. The next thing I knew, the only evidence left of the apple was the stem. He ate everything, core and all. Way [...]
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At breakfast Asher noticed a big icicle hanging down from the kitchen window. So we immediately went and pulled it off and put it in the freezer.
After a lunch of sandwiches and chocolate shakes, we left for a movie.
It was freezing and Asher refused to wear his coat…brrr!
After the movie we saw Jamie at [...]
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I had a really mushy post going about Asher and how he’s changed my life, but I guess the universe rejected it because my web browser suddenly shut down near the end of it. Oh well. I am so amazed that I have a 6 year old boy and I love and adore [...]
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I had a meeting with the school psychologist this morning regarding Asher. Rewind 5 months: In the first week of Kindergarten Asher’s teacher sent a note asking me to meet with her. I like his teacher a lot. She’s got a really positive, bubbly personality. When I met with her she [...]
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Here is the train table BJay and I reworked for Gabe. The table top flips over to make a plain coffey table (all the tracks are naile/glued down. I did the lame paint job.
The next photos are of the painstaking projects we undertook for Hila.
First the dresses I lost sleep over for over [...]
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