March 29th 2009
We went a whole week with no t.v. for the kids. I had to clarify that because Alan and I HAD to watch American Idol – both nights of it! But that was after the kids went to bed.
Overall, it was a very good experience for us. Some of the [...]
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March 26th 2009
I had a lady make a comment about her cat today that was kind of tough to hear. Her cat apparently isn’t “all there” and she said “yeah, he takes a ride on the short bus, if you know what I mean.”
I do know what she means. As a parent of [...]
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March 23rd 2009
We are going to turn the television off for the kids for a week. I had a wake-up call yesterday at church. Spencer said some terrible things to his shadow (the guy that stays with him in his Sunday school class) and I am fairly certain they came from some television shows he [...]
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March 8th 2009
My scariest dream ever had nothing to do with monsters. It had to do with isolation. I had this dream when I was a kid, but I have never forgotten it.
In the dream, I was a child about eight years old. I lived in a big city in a run-down [...]
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March 5th 2009
I just saw a picture of a man I went to high school with. He was a senior when I was a freshman. I had to smile when I saw his picture because it brought back a good memory.
It was the first day of school and I was nervous because as a freshman, [...]
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March 3rd 2009
Today is my big brother’s birthday. Big brother is actually a very fitting description of him; he’s not only older than me, he’s a big man. He was a big kid, too. This did not work in my favor because like most big brothers, he liked to teach me new things – [...]
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March 3rd 2009
I’m just curious what people’s first (and I mean VERY earliest) memories are. I have a few snapshot memories that I know had to come before I turned 3-years-old. The reason I know they were in this time period is because of the house we lived in at the time and also because [...]
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March 2nd 2009
Today is a bit of a sad day for me. One of my favorite people is moving away. Salli Hernandez is my neighbor Vindi McMaster’s mother and she has become a good friend of mine while she has lived here the last two and a half years. She is one of those [...]
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