RIP Snickerdoodle {my cat, not the cookie}

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I realize it's been a pretty epic bad week for my emotions about my dear cat slowly slipping from us - but I didn't realize how much it was affecting Bear and Bug until I heard Bug playing with his gray puppy- the one that looks just like my cat and said to me, blue eyes wide and  somber, "Puppy died." Earlier that week Bear unplugged my cell phone and it frustrated me quite a bit, "Stop … [Read more...]

Graduation

Bear's pre-school graduation

  I don't talk a lot about Bear and William's Syndrome on here. I think that I've said it before that this is kind of an escape for me here on my blog,  but every now and again I like to talk about him. Because he's just pretty awesome. :) Today he graduated from pre-school. He was precious and got the loudest round of applause when his name was called. He ran up to get his … [Read more...]

High.

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It's been a rough couple of weeks. Professionally and personally. I needed an escape, to be able to breath again and I fled to Colorado with Ben (and no kids- THANK YOU FAMILY) to see my sister and feel something other than stress for a few days. We drove through the night and I felt exhilarated: exhausted, stinky, delirious and ... at home. To see the peaks again from a distance was heart … [Read more...]

Beauty in the Mess

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I'm always laughing. I'm always smiling. It's so funny really, perhaps it's the smiles and laughter of someone saying under their breath "if I wasn't laughing, I'd be crying" but for whatever reason I'm getting dozens of tiny little wrinkles around my perpetually crinkled eyes. At a doctor's appointment with the boys I was told by him, "I can always tell which families are happy ones, … [Read more...]