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    2006 Survey

    December 31, 2006 - By 

    I found this over on Zoot’s page. Here’s a similar one I did last year. Hope everyone has a great New Year! 1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before? Put my house up for sale Started using an SLR camera Went camping 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Yes, but didn’t stick to them. 3. Did anyone close to you give birth? My best friend from high school had triplets. Rob’s older sister had another boy. Rob’s younger sister had a girl. My brother’s girlfriend…

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    2007 Predictions

    December 31, 2006 - By 

    Since I did it last year, I figured, hey why not do it again! 1. I will survive this school year and I will get tenure. 2. We will get motivated and get Alex potty trained. 3. Rob and I will go on a great trip together! 4. We will sell our house. 5. We will move to a new house (hopefully the one on Cedarbrook!) 6. I will reach 1,000 blog entries by the end of the year. 7. I will be a more patient, understanding person 8. I will make some great iMovies and make some DVD’s that…

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    The Year in Opening Sentences – 2006

    December 30, 2006 - By 

    Here’s a meme I found over on Robin’s blog from other bloggers. Show the past year through the opening line of each month on the blog. I linked them back to the original entries. January Hope everyone survived the New Year’s festivities. February My Dad recently came to visit and it was great! March It’s crazy that my baby is turning 2 on Tuesday! April Today Rob and I celebrated Valentine’s Day. May 1. Titanic (watched part of this again recently – WOW! I forgot how truly romantic it is!) June 1. Playing games with him July Here’s an automobile…

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    Friday Feast #17

    December 29, 2006 - By 

    Appetizer How do you usually celebrate on New Year’s Eve? We usually watch the ball drop on TV and have senseless desire to be shivering with the thousands of people partying up in Time Square to welcome in the New Year. Someday we’ll do that! Soup Name one thing unexpected that happened to you in 2006. We decided to sell our house. Salad Where was your favorite place that you visited in 2006? We didn’t really go anywhere exciting this year, so I’d have to say visiting the house we want was my favorite place. Main Course What resolution is…

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    Christmas Eve Adventure

    December 28, 2006 - By 

    As you can see Alex got his foot stuck Christmas Eve, while trying a new kind of cookie we had made for Santa. At first we tried to just squeeze it out. Then, we tried to take the back of the chair off. We were thinking we were going to have to break or saw part of the chair to get it out. But then I had him turn and get back on his knees and were able to squeeze it out. Just a little adventure before putting out the cookies for Santa and getting tucked in for the long…

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    Stuff with Invisible Legs!

    December 28, 2006 - By 

    It seems that each year after Christmas everything we give or get for Christmas has invisible legs. What I mean by that is that as hard as I try, there is Christmas gifts everywhere. I try to find a home for all the new toys, DVDs, books, clothes, and whatever else. But I feel as though as soon as I put it down the invisible little legs pop out and they find their way back to the middle of living room floor! As much as I want someone to come look at the house, it’s probably a good thing no…

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    13 Things: 2006 (TT #17)

    December 28, 2006 - By 

    Thirteen Things about 2006 1. Drew had his first sleep over party for his 8th birthday. 2. My Dad came to visit. 3. Drew joined the Cub Scouts. 4. I got a new camera, a Canon Rebel. 5. Alex turned 2! 6. We went on 2 family campouts. My first time to sleep in a tent since my toddlerhood. 7. Drew caught a snake (and it bit him!) 8. My kids were Darth Vader and Elmo for Halloween. 9. My favorite Christmas gift was all the books I received. 10. I became an aunt, with a new nephew and a…

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    2006 Christmas Gift Lists

    December 26, 2006 - By 

    What I got for Christmas: Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats–A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog Kid Food: Rachael Ray’s Top 30 30-Minutes Meals I Love Lucy – The Complete Series (Seasons 1-6) (1951) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Bueller Bueller Edition The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook: Everything I Know About Love and Marriage Waring Pro WMK300 Belgian Waffle Maker G-Elite Designer Brand style Fashion Bangle Watch jewelry box What Rob got for Christmas: Wenger Extreme II Men’s Watch…

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    My 2006 Predictions

    December 26, 2006 - By 

    Did my 2006 Predictions happen? 10 on Tuesday – 2006 Predictions 1. My friend, Katie, will get pregnant. – Yes, and she has 3 healthy girls now. 2. Alex will be potty trained by the end of the year. – Uhhh…no! (Haven’t pushed it) 3. Rob and I will go on a great trip together! – No 4. I will be healthier at the end of the year, because I will exercise and eat better. – No 5. My pinched nerve pain will be resolved. – It’s better, but not ‘resolved’. 6. I will train myself to be more patient.…

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    Struggles with Believing

    December 21, 2006 - By 

    Yes, Drew is at the age where his friends are letting it be known that they don’t believe in Santa. Drew is really struggling to believe in him. He was questioning everything today about Santa. Even though we told him last year that most of the Santa we see are just his helper, he still days well why does the REAL Santa come to our mall? I did the best I could to explain, but he continued to say things like “Well, I just don’t know why we don’t get to see Rudolph” or “How does he get all over…

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    Christmas Ramblings (Part 2)

    December 19, 2006 - By 

    Well, I got everything done with newsletters and packages today. I also got some other gifts wrapped. We had our work party today. It seems that everytime I make something to contribute to the party food, it never gets eaten. It just makes me not want to contribute. We had like 20 desserts, but that’s what I was supposed to bring. Oh well! Anyway, it turned out that my secret pal who I had had me too, which I was pretty sure that was the case. He seemed to be really shocked that I was his secret pal. I think…

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    Christmas Ramblings…

    December 19, 2006 - By 

    So last weekend we went and got our Christmas tree. I’ll post pictures as soon as I get through with all the rush of the next couple of days. I was trying to get a package mailed out today, but I didn’t! I also haven’t finished our Christmas newsletter yet…Yes! It’s true. I hope to have those out tomorrow if I can finish them tonight, get them printed tomorrow, in the envelopes, sealed, stamped and dropped off! Luckily we got our shopping done yesterday, so we just have a couple things to pick up for the kids. I have my…

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    This just rips my heart out

    November 29, 2006 - By 

    This morning I found out that one of my student’s mother was murdered last night. When he got up he went to wake his mom up and walked through what he thought was water (because ‘the pipes are always leaking’) and it ended up being his own mother’s blood. He found her dead, beaten, stabbed, and her throat was slit. When his homeroom teacher went to check on him today he was outside being interviewed by TV reporters. What the heck is wrong with those people? This 5th grade child just found his mother dead and they have TV cameras…

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    Update…

    November 25, 2006 - By 

    How are y’all? Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We’re still in Florida. I left my camera USB cable at home so I’m not able to upload and edit and post pics like I’d like to. ACK! I’ll have TONS to do when we get home Monday night, and Tuesday, and Wednesday….hahaha! Alex has been sick. He’s been off and on with his mood. We’ve had another dreadful task. I usually do medicine the lazy way and put it in his cups with no problems. But since we’ve been out of town, Rob decided Alex needed to be administered the…

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    Mr. Destructive

    November 10, 2006 - By 

    That would be my Alex, my 2 year old. I have a list of things he’s done lately that have been completely destructive, but today tops it. I had gone in the other room to open the windows because it’s cool outside and warm inside. Then, Rob got home and I started talking to him. Alex brings me this black plastic thing and I’m like what is that? It turned out be one of the many keys off my keyboard that he ripped off. We were able to find all the keys and the little white plastic pieces that help…