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you snoozed- and thus you lost

Well, you slow people, you missed your opportunity to be my neighbor! Today, as I type, people are moving into the house across the street. They look nice. Much nicer than the former methhead family. By the way, I have a random update on that. I think I may have judgmentally mentioned that the wife of the volunteer fire fighter looked like a stripper? oh I didn't? I was trying NOT to be … [Read more...]

Shallow Heidi

What is the ultimate in not being satisfied with what God gave you? Curling my hair. Yes, spending the time straighten my long, wild, curly hair, and then taking even MORE time to re-curl it to a more fashionable curl. I mean, what the heck- even I see the irony here but I love the way the "cool" curls look!! I curled my hair for the first time last night for Ben's work party. I felt like a movie … [Read more...]

Welcome to Holland

by Emily Pearl Kingsley I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this . . . When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. … [Read more...]

Happies: the square, bathtime, our tree, a gate, first snow, (Pics!)

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