Smarty Pants

Yes, I know I completely skipped the obligatory Halloween post, and I’m OK with it. Summing up: It was fun. The kids were cute. They trick-or-treated for almost 2 hours and still have tons of candy to prove it. Sweet! Moving on…
On a different yet equally exciting note, this past week was Parent Teacher Conferences. [...]

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Round 2

Remember my resolve to take one child each month and spend an evening with them doing something of their choice? If not then you should read here or even here (did I forget to post about Emma’s date? Hmmm.).
The other night was the end of round 2 of me taking all of the kiddies out [...]

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And Deep Breath Out…

It’s been quite a month, which is my (valid!) excuse for my lack of posting the past few weeks.
We’re down-shifting from the crazy remodeling/fixing up the house phase, which I am not complaining about. Most of what we wanted to do is done AND it looks like we may be holding off listing the house [...]

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Bathtubs, Bats, and Noseblows

I keep waiting for things to slow down a little bit… just enough so I can stop, take a breath, and relax a little. Seeing as it’s been 9 months without much down time, it’s finally set in that this is the norm. SWEET!
The kids are back in the swing of things at school, and [...]

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It Started!

It happened. All of my kids are in school! My “babies” started 1st grade last week. No more preschool or kindergarten… these two are in the BIG league now. I have been looking forward to the day when all of my kids where in school, but surprisingly, I got a little sad watching them walk [...]

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Good Bye :(

I’m not ready for this thing called summer to end.
First of all, I was kind of screwed out of June. It rained most of the month, which meant it was kind of cold (relatively), and in all fairness, I think that Mother Nature should maybe throw in a bonus month. We could call it Augober.
Secondly, [...]

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Me, 1. Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, 0.

If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you might remember the medical issues that my daughter faced last summer (I wrote about it here, here, here, and here). She survived and all is well. But, as you can read about here, even though her medical problems resolved, my fight with the insurance company had [...]

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It’s Finally Over

You know those weeks that you wish you could just by-pass? Like fall asleep on Sunday night and wake up one week later? Well, this week was one of those.
We had 2 birthday parties to throw, a tennis tournament, swim camp, kids kids kids, and all of the crap in-between.
The first party was for three [...]

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$292,000!!!

As I just logged into my account, this headline caught my attention:
The Cost of Parenting: $292,000
The US government released a report Tuesday (8/4/2009) estimating the cost of raising a child from birth through high school at $292,000 when adjusted for inflation. The report from the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and [...]
blah blah blah.
We’ve got 5 [...]

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July And Stuff

This past month has been kind of a whirlwind of activities and I have NOT been very good at keeping up with posting about them. Since I’ve been so good at blogging in “list” form, here goes another one:

We’ve had more water fun and BBQ get togethers with friends. FUN STUFF!
One of my good friends [...]

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