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Pass Me My Mom Jeans
It’s official, y’all. At 6:00pm tonight, I became a soccer mom. Bean is playing pre-K soccer through the YMCA league in our neighborhood. Chris and I are beyond excited. The entire reason we…
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5% of Middle Schoolers
Today in school I was teaching about tone in your writing. How to select the correct words to create your desired tone. This, in turn, creates the right mood with your reader. When…
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Almost Back in Action
Well, friends, I’m just about back in action here at Marriage Confessions. I had a rough time this past week as we formally said goodbye to my dad with his family and friends…
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A Rip-ROAR-ing Good Time
When I was asked to review the new VTech Switch & Go Dinos, I thought it would be a breeze. Send me some dinosaur transformers for Bean to play with? Are you kidding…
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Sitting in My Boat
I’ve been hesitant to blog about real things this week for a couple reasons. Mostly, it’s because my mom and sister read my blog and I don’t want to write anything that upsets…
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I.m an Aunt!
Last Thursday night, Chris and I left after work and drove to Atlanta to be there for the birth of my first nephew. We left our own kids in the very capable hands…
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Hands-On Fatherhood
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The biggest fight Chris and I ever got into was in the stroller aisle at Babies R Us. We were registering when I was…
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Meeting Your Baby
When Bean Man first joined our family, we wanted to do everything with him right away. We took him shopping with us… on beach-town getaways… and pumpkin picking with us. We felt like…
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Big Grief in Small People
On the car ride to the hospital, even before I knew my dad had died, I worried about what I would say to Bean. Gracie is really too little to understand or to…
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A New Normal
Before I begin this post, I wanted to take a minute to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your comments, emails, texts, thoughts, and prayers. My family has been…