I miss mom

She loves me… even more than GUS.

It’s true. I’ve been gone quite a bit over the last month, so a whole lot of missing is going on. One morning recently, I grabbed Lucy and gave her a BIG, long hug. Mid-embrace Lucy told me, “I Love you, mommy… more than the DOGS.” I pulled back, looked in her eyes and told [...]

All of us

I *heart* my family.

I have been in Colorado for the last 5 days. My dad had triple bypass last Sunday. I booked a flight and made it out by Monday afternoon. Wednesday was Lucy’s birthday. It was really hard to be away. REALLY hard. But thanks to technology (Google Hangout, to be exact) I got to watch Lucy [...]

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Up A Tree…

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POOL!

Road Trip: Day 2

OMGosh you guys! I can call you, “You guys!”, right? I was all gonna do a road trip update every day AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED??!!! Um… VISITING with people IRL has happened! You know what that means? I AM VISITING AND NOT BLOGGING. Weird, right? You are probably worried. Wondering if we are safe… [...]

Wendy. Jenny. Boom.

Jump Around! Jump Around! Jump Up Jump Up and Get Down!

SO. I have this friend I met online… say 2 years ago, or so. I think she started stalking me first. Or she admitted it first. It doesn’t really matter. We are a story of internet fairy tales. After a couple of years of mutual adoration, we were handed an opportunity to meet, and our [...]

Easter basket

Parenting: Just lowering the bar a little bit more. I do it for you.

Oh friends. Remember those first few years of parenting? Those years when idealism ruled. When you made the birthday cake from scratch… When it mattered that shoes matched the outfit… When you would NEVER dream of letting your child play barefoot in 28 – 39 degree weather while wearing a swimsuit. (An aside: nothing makes [...]

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Thick and Thin

No I did not just comment on our respective size. That’s my friend Sara. A.K.A. MY SARA. We’ve been through thick moments. And thin. We have, after all, birthed 5 children between the two of us. Yikes. THESE genes have been passed on to FIVE new people. BRACE YOURSELF, WORLD. Sara is the girl that [...]

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Some much-needed time with a friend…

My friend Sara and her man and their kidlets came for a visit last weekend. Sara and I have been friends since I first moved up here to WA… oh about 15 years ago. We stayed so busy. We drank coffee… DUH! Sara makes the very most lovely and most delicious lattes any person has [...]

cooking rainbow pancakes

How O’Pinterest brought O’friends together on St. Paddy’s Day

So, the o’night before St. Paddy’s Day, I o’chilled out before bed and did some o’therapeutic pinning. I pinned these rainbow pancakes and o’mentioned in my pin I would be making them in the o’morning… My friend O’Andrea was all, “What time’s breakfast?? We’ll be there!!!” And then I o’thought… O’HMMMM! THAT COULD O’WORK!  Then [...]

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Dog Tired and also… Cumin & Coffee Do NOT A Tasty Cup Make

By the looks of this picture, one might assume the dogs got into the turkey – tryptophan and such. But they didn’t… they just really wore each other out … and the humans… and now I truly understand the term “dog tired”. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving… as did my dog Kevin (top left). As [...]