

I was hoping to put a photo album together documenting Emi’s second year. Yet when I looked through our photos I’ve realized that either my daughter hates her life or is actually incapable of smiling and looking at the camera. I’m hoping it’s the latter because therapy ain’t cheap. Here’s a few shots from her [...]
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I think Twitter is broken. I’ve read a few tweets referring to the problem as a “capacity issue”, but let’s simplify and do away with the technical terms. Twitter don’t work right. Hopefully I’m not the only one having problems. Anyone else? My fear is that maybe it IS just me. I swear every time [...]
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Kacey and I are facing a problem. It is something most bloggers deal with at one point or another. We just can’t seem to stay motivated. Each week, we commit to writing and posting, and each week we fail. Most of the time I am amazed that we have any new content at all. We [...]
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I’ll be honest. One of the MAIN reasons I became a teacher was for the summer vacation. Sure, I love the kids. I love getting them excited about learning, teaching them to read, and dealing with their nutty parents. But is an 8 week summer a major perk? Hell yes! Or so I used I [...]
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I spent the weekend in Phoenix at Bloggy Boot Camp, which was fun and fabulous. I’m the gorgeous red head on the left. Or the tall knock-out in the center. Or just combine the two & think of me as a tall red head. Your choice. At the start of any conversation at a blog [...]
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Monday, May 10: This contest is now closed. We are happy to report that the Furla bag will be going to leaht and the $100 gift card will be making its way to katydidandkid. Hooray! Hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Mother’s Day. As I sit trying to write this blog post, my children are in [...]
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Once upon a time there was a very hip mother and her vivacious daughter, Emi. Everyday after work the oh-so-hip mother would pick Emi up from her sitter’s and together they would take trips to the library or neighborhood park. In recent weeks the very fashionable mother was elated at her daughter’s new found vocabulary. [...]
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Before I started having kids, I decided that there were certain things in life that I wanted for them. These goals were not overly grand; nothing as serious as becoming president, achieving world peace, or finding a cure to cancer. No, my ideas were much simpler; more along the lines of the everyday. For my [...]
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