Jan 7 - your front door
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So Amelia has completed two full weeks at her new daycare, and knock on wood, no biting incidents. The reports seem positive and that she is having a happy disposition, and she seems to enjoy her time at the daycare. She runs joyfully to me at pick-up, but she also goes to school with a smile on her face ( Read more... )

I need some topic suggestions for January, so throw some my way! Thanks!
(Or I think I need more active Livejournal friends... welp)

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Happy New Year!

Inspired by koyaaniisqatsi, I'm going to do the Ask Me Anything PHOTO edition for the month of January! Let me know what you want to see pictures of in my life, and I'll be happy to oblige! So you know, pick a day, and ask something, or more than one thing. :)
( Days beneath cut... )

Wednesday ( Read more... )

Copying zhelana, here are the top 10 places I have visited ( Read more... )

Because it's too good not to share with my Livejournal friends who are not on my Facebook, I present to you this year's Halloween photo from JCPenney Portrait Studio. This was actually the only photo of Amelia and Erika that we obtained, before Amelia just flat out refused to be in the studio any longer. Amelia is the third child to wear this kitty ( Read more... )

Today has been an emotionally tough day for me. I cried when I woke up. I cried on my drive to work. I cried in the bathroom at work. I cried in the car on the way home ( Read more... )

Sometimes you get entrenched, and then the years fly by, and you think to yourself "why are we still here?" and "why do we continue to torture ourselves like this?" When I was pregnant with Erika six years ago, I didn't know any pediatricians in our area, so I asked my OBGYN for some recommendations. She said she didn't know any of them personally ( Read more... )

Back in August 2008, I was still living that married but childfree couple life, and on a whim, my sister and I decided to go for a 4-day getaway to Connecticut. We packed some clothes and swimsuits, hopped in my car, and I drove the two hours north to Branford, CT. We kayaked around islands, lay on the beach and worked on our tans, we pulled out a ( Read more... )