Breakfast at Charly’s

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Rest In Peace Irena Sendler

Back some time ago I saw the story of Irena Sendler on The Today Show. Her story touched me so much that I wrote her name on my kitchen white board, fully intending on looking her up when I got a chance. Months went by but her name remained until one day last month I [...]

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Kind of a busy week

This week has been a busy one. Jeff’s hours have picked up so it’s been all me all the time. I’m not complaining in the least, though. Extra hours mean extra money in the bank to offset the weeks when OT is scarce.
Wednesday Izzie’s class had an adorable Mother’s Day party for the moms. Nothing [...]

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Madame Buttoner

Today is a very special day in our household. This morning my youngest child became a buttoner. Oh yes, she buttoned her sweater all by herself and she was damn proud. She insisted on high-fives until they hurt. Of course it was a play hurt but that girl wanted to plant some palm.
Our first day [...]

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She’ll be your girl for all seasons

Yesterday was something. It’s a few days past the first day of Spring and what happened? We got about 7″ of snow. Gotta love a white Easter! I’m pretty sure it’s not the first time this has happened in Michigan and Easter is early this year so I’m not surprised, actually. Weather can be dicey [...]

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Borrowing from Colbert

In my quest to be entirely unoriginal, I thought I’d steal the concept of “On Notice” and “Dead to Me” ala Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report. From time to time I roll my eyes or get truly irritated and fed up with things. (Okay, who are we kidding? I do this the bulk of [...]

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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLY

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday, dear Kelly!
Happy Birthday to you!
We love you, baby. Thank you for being such a wonderful friend. You’re an amazing human being and I love you very much. Oh, and you’re still older than me. Neener neener!
Mwah!

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The little things

When you have a school-aged child who has social challenges like autism, you worry that they are going to become that sore thumb in class that everyone notices as really different. You don’t get to see them during the school day so you worry if kids are teasing more than they might normally (unfortunately we [...]

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Good luck, Suz! Love you!

I wanted to throw out some positive energy into the blogosphere today and wish my dear friend Suz some good luck. She has a really important interview and I want to wish her well. Blogs can fill the world with a lot of negative and self-absorbed energy so I wanted to put something good out [...]

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A little sprinkly fun

A little sprinkly fun
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Having a donut at Dunkin Donuts with my sweetie. One of the good things in life still.

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Rare moment

Rare moment
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I caught them snuggling while watching TV and I had to save the moment for posterity. Awww. Holmes on Homes must be calming.