11/13/09 Five Things Friday

1. I’m so glad it isn’t raining again today. It still may be cold and incredibly windy, but I just couldn’t take another day of incessant rain. Supposedly it will be nice this weekend, which means maybe a nice long walk with the kids and a healthy, much-needed dose of sunny Vitamin D for all [...]

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The Fair! The Fair!

Mikey and I went to the NC State Fair this past week. What a nice treat for us to sneak away and have a “date.” We got to hold hands and laugh with each other.  
Here’s the list of things we ate at the fair this year:
 

A gyro with lamb (my personal fave and a tradition [...]

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What REALLY Matters

I had a mini melt-down last night when I had ten things going at once, and Mikey came home and wanted to go for a family walk – which I LOVE, btw, normally. But in this instant I became suddenly overwhelmed with everything else I’m trying to do and I got upset. A walk seemed [...]

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Life at Ludicrous Speed

I feel like someone suddenly pressed the fast forward button on my life and left me no time to get anything done. Not only for myself, but around the house as well.
 
Avery wants to be held all the time, and will only sit down for about 10-15 minutes (if I’m lucky) and watch a little [...]

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Kinda Fuh-Reaky.

Leafing through the September/October issue of All You Magazine, I came across the horoscope page.
I’ve never put stock in horoscopes, but sometimes I read them for fun.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a truer horoscope, or felt it applied to me more than this one did.
Change is continuing to come to us. Good things are [...]

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Happy Two Year Anniversary!

I cannot believe it’s already been two years. The time has just flown by.
Yesterday was officially two years since Mikey and I said “I do,” and exactly six years to the day of our first date. Before I met Mikey, I hadn’t dated anyone for longer than about a year and a half, and after [...]

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The Safe Saga

My husband, as a child, he dressed in black and had an arsenal of fake guns and artillery and other various weapons and would imagine himself to be a Caucasian Jackie Chan.
            My husband is a closet ninja. So it was only a matter of time before he’d want to keep his “ninja” stuff in [...]

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A “Quality Furniture” Kind of Marriage

Sixty years ago today, my grandparents were married. My Nana was a young girl of 18 years old; my Poppa was 21 just out of the Navy.
Sixty years ago today, they were two kids in love, with their entire life filled with endless possibilities stretched before them.
Sixty years ago today, they looked into each other’s [...]

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Packrat Protest

The dreaded time has come.
Earlier this week Mikey said the words I feared most as we were taking Gunnar for his nightly walk.
“Remember to bring home some boxes from work, because Saturday I’m boxing in the office.”
 
By “boxing,” my husband didn’t mean going a few rounds with Mike Tyson. He meant the time has come [...]

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The Ultimate Redemption

        “Just when I thought you couldn’t get any dumber, you go and do a thing like this… and TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!!!”
                                             ~ Harry Dunn, “Dumb and Dumber”
 
I’ll admit I was irritated with my husband a couple days ago. I’m sure a lot of it had to do with my own sleep deprivation and body comfort [...]

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