thanks to my dear friend, Julie Ball, i FINALLY am the PROUD owner of a SUPER COOL typewriter: and i got it for only $15! this is the SAME Julie who saw a brownie movie camera on her recent trip to Minnesota… and she called me from that antique store to see if [...]
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one week ago today we got a phone call from my OB’s office. alexandra’s kariotype results were finally available. dr. mora called to tell me the good news: she really is perfect. at birth, she was given the "all clear" sign based on listening to her heart and her lungs. and then the special blood [...]
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some of you have heard me joke that my son looks like his daddy… samantha looks like her auntie rachel (dave’s sister) and alexandra looks like uncle jeff (dave’s brother)… so where are MY kids? but then i found this photo on my phone, taken with the hipstamatic camera application: the app is cool [...]
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8 years, 7 states visited, 6 employers, 5 vehicles, 4 countries visited, 3 children, 2 individuals, who became ONE HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my amazing husband of 8 years! i love you more every day. Thank you for being a loving, caring, providing husband. for being a loving, fun, entertaining and teaching daddy. for being a [...]
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i was never much of a berry fan. not strawberries. not blueberries. not raspberries. not blackberries. but i’d never had any of those FRESH, either. and then i moved here – to the pacific northwest. to the raspberry-growing capital of our country, in fact. and it didn’t change my mind – not at first, that [...]
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"Good things come to those who wait." it’s a saying i’ve heard often in my lifetime. today, i’m reflecting how true that is for me. with both big things and small things. a small thing like THIS is making me happy today. my friend’s mom has one of these and i’m excited to purchase [...]
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we had our visit from the home care nurse yesterday morning. i was a little worried about a morning visit since we’d just been seen the previous afternoon and we hadn’t had another full 24 hours for alex to be on the light bed and to gain weight. but we got the call around 1:30 [...]
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just a week ago, this little girl entered our life: and she spends most of her day sleeping. in case you’re wondering, th LOVE her: … or in Davey’s case, "i yuv and yike her" (meaning "i love and like her"). and samantha can often be heard asking "baby? baby?" [...]
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if you’d like to see some adorable photos of my sweet baby Alexandra, check out my friend’s blog post for today: Julie’s BLOG i can’t wait to get my hands on some of those photos and scrap them! i also haven’t yet seen what photos dave has taken of Alex… perhaps i should [...]
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i need to say a very BIG and very PUBLIC THANK YOU to my mom. she arrived here in Lynden back at the end of May. and Daisy’s birthday (the 13th) marked her SEVENTH week in our house. sleeping on camping mats on the floor in the bonus room. caring for her two youngest grandchildren [...]
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