Lux et umbra vicissum…

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Today, our lives will change forever.  Today, life as we know it will be done and a new way of life will have begun.  Today, our priorities will be changed, our hearts’ sources will be tapped, and our hands will be full. Today, we get our puppy.

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I have a good husband.  He’s my helper, comforter, and best friend.  And he knows when to tell me to stop with the saving money thing.

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It’s a good thing I’ve learned to laugh at myself over the years.  If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t be able to post about this sort of thing. 😛 You may know from a previous post that we received some court papers in the mail, but I wasn’t sure what they were or why we got […]

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I was planning on posting today about the way I muffed a bit on the re-adoption (nothing major… no worries), but I’m too tired and cranky right now. Instead, I’ll simply state that I think UTI’s are the most annoying of all of the infections.  Queezy tummy, a little extra tired, and having to pee […]

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You know, sometimes I think that she’s very aptly named. Our “white raven” is certainly intelligent and good at problem solving, her relationships with others are often quarrelsome yet she has a strong loyalty to her family, she has the beautiful flaxen hair of Aphrodite, and she maintains a strong individuality refusing to be drawn […]

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Two year olds tend to fit the things they hear into what they understand. For example, when our two year old watches Dora and hears a Spanish word, instead of learning it as a Spanish word it becomes whatever the closet English word is to it. She learned an entire Dora song that way: “La […]

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It’s a sin that lawyers can charge as much as they do for things. At the same time, I can definitely understand why people use them rather than trying to do stuff on their own. On Friday we got mail from the county courts. We opened the envelope and found what looked like some of […]

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My kids are excellent button pushers.  They love pushing the buttons for elevators, though so far we’ve avoided having them push all of them while we’re in there, thankfully.  The love pushing buttons on the microwave to the extent that they actually fight over whose turn it is to push “start”. 😛  And of course, […]

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I was telling Joel last night that it’s just not fair that some people can do things like write one book and then have it become a best seller the proceeds of which they can live off of.  Or write one song and live off the royalties.  *sigh* I wish I could write!  I don’t […]

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