Summer vacation is nearly over. We haven’t gone anywhere on vacation this year and it looks like we won’t be going anywhere particularly exciting or distant in the next three weeks either. But the kids have done two swimming lesson sessions and we’ve built a swing set and slide for play at home. [...]

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The 48-hour period from Friday through Saturday was a rough one. Snoring Daddy was out of town for most of the week and Friday afternoon/early evening was supposed to see him home to give me a bit of relief. “Supposed to” is the key phrase here. What really happened went something like [...]

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Yesterday, while I was visiting my stepmother at the hospital in Oklahoma City (She was alert and trying to communicate finally. She even smiled at me. Yay!), my husband worked on one of many project cars, while the children played in their 10 foot wide by 30 inches deep pool.
Demolition Preschooler decided [...]

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As of this morning, I have lost the first 10% of my starting body weight. 31 lbs are gone and I mean for them to stay gone for good this time. Sunday will mark the end of my eighth week back on sparkpeople and rededicated to changing my lifestyle, achieving my health goals, and maintaining [...]

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That’s their new nickname. The Hooligans. I think it fits quite well for my spawn.
Their daddy is out of town until Friday, away at some big important round table meeting, leaving me here alone with them. This means I most definitely cannot take off for Oklahoma City to visit my stepmom in [...]

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