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Happy Celiac Awareness Month

So today I have a great guest post from my good friend Melissa from The Crazy Celiac blog!  May is also Celiac Awareness Month!  She has written an amazing post about what Celiac disease is and how she...

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Mother's Day

I have been a little MIA lately.  We are in the midst of packing up our house and have been madly preparing for a moving sale to cut our crazy amount of junk WAY down!First, I really want to thank...

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Are you still with me?

Whew!  It has been quite the last couple of weeks for our family!In the last three weeks we have had a successful garage ("moving sale" per the hubby) sale, and packed up a bunch of non-essential stuff...

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Hello Summer

Well, the end of the school year is rapidly approaching and as usually happens it gets crazy busy.D has nine days left of second grade (sniff), we have a family funeral to attend, my brother-in-law...

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Planning for Summer Survival

Well, it has been awhile again since my last post.  I'm trying to post a couple times a week for several reasons, but mostly because I like it!  Like everything in my life I'm finding I have to make...

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The Crazy Celiac: Sweet Melissa's Gluten Free Baking Company

I want to do a brief plug tonight for my good friend Melissa, from The Crazy Celiac!  She did a guest post in May about celiac disease and her struggle to get healthy.  She is in the process of getting...

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Why?

Today you can find me at the bottom of a baby dogpile full of drool and snot.  Need proof?  Here's an image I somehow managed to capture.  ( the exhausted look and bags under my eyes are completely...

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Crazy

So today was D's last day of school.  He is now a 3rd grader.  Not sure where the year has gone, at times it felt like it would never end and at others a month went by in the blink of an eye.  On D's...

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The Start of Summer Vacation

Well, the first day of summer vacation has come and passed.  All the kids are still alive and fairly happy.  So far so good.  Only three more months to go.I had told the kiddos that we were going to...

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A day in the life...

So today I thought I'd give you a glimpse into what I call the organized chaos that is my life.  At least a summer-vacation-with-five-kiddos-around kind of day.  I'll generalize a normal day and...

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Random Thoughts for Today

Happy Wednesday everyone!I'm sitting here enjoying my second cup of coffee, twins are napping, laundry is drying and kiddos are watching a movie.  I don't want to bring the universe's attention to it,...

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Introversion

I have a strange personality.I'm shy; I used to be painfully so and people thought I was just bitchy and stuck up.  I'm a classic introvert.  A perfect day to me would be being able to sit quietly,...

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Why not

I thought I'd drop you all a little note letting you know what's been going on.  On Wednesday I had surgery to fix some of the female issues you can get after having babies and especially twins.  It...

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Home

Well, I finally made it home yesterday.  If you haven't read my last post and are unaware: I had some pretty involved surgery that was supposed to have a one night hospital stay afterward.  Not my bed...

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What, no children?!?

As I'm still recovering, I find myself laying on the couch, with a pillow under my knees, watching The Today Show.  That, and listening to a couple of seven year olds irritate each other.  Happy...

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Trying

Today I find myself sitting with my feet up, watching the three older kiddos quietly color while the twins nap.  I'm still in recovery mode and will be for the next four to six weeks so we're laying...

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More Balance

Yesterday I wrote about finding balance for my kids and managing my mommy guilt.  Today I want to address another area of balance in the home which can be challenging: balancing the needs and wants of...

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Counting down

I woke up today to the sound of the older kiddos playing in their room/family room.  H was starting to stir and I looked at the clock and it was 6:40 am.  I made myself get up to take a shower because...

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Look at me! I'm making cake pops! Wait a minute - oh SH**

I had one of the most epic mom fails of all time today.It all started with the best of intentions and could've had the worst possible outcomes.Tomorrow is D's eighth birthday.  A couple of years ago he...

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