Can’t keep a good woman down

Bootstraps.  When you get knocked down, you pull yourself up by your bootstraps.  You pick up the pieces and move on, leaving the trash behind.
I promised embarassing pictures of me as a kid.  Here are embarassing pictures.
In the tenth grade, I got invited to the senior prom.  Love the puffy sleeves and the matching tuxedo. And yes, I’m wearing gloves.  Classy! He drove a 1964 Mustang.  Gorgeous car.

Here is the entire series of school photos.  I’m not sure what happened to all of my junior high yearbooks, [...]

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Where are the photos?

I was going to post more embarassing photos.  I had a whole series of my high school yearbook pics, including my senior photo proofs, but the crappy week I was trying to distract myself from just got even crappier and suddenly I’m just not in the mood.  Making fun of myself just doesn’t seem all [...]

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Dear Zoë and Lennox

Do you know how much I miss you? I think about you every day, every hour. I look at your photos over and over and wish I had more of them.
Lennox, I miss your big puppy paw hands and your serious little face. Such a tiny man with such [...]

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Embarassing childhood photos

So, I’m a couple of days behind, having just found out about this today and it started on Saturday.  So, here are a few more photos to get me caught up.
I’m the one in the middle, with the jeans pegged so tightly it’s amazing my feet didn’t go permanently numb from lack of circulation. Surprisingly enough, the red suspenders AREN’T the embarassing part. This was taken at my father’s 50th birthday party and all of the [...]

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Time for some fun

This week is probably not going to be a good one.  Any day now, Zoë’s doctor is going to call me with the official results of her autopsy and I’m dreading it.  I have a decent idea of what to expect, but that doesn’t make it any easier.  I’m trying very hard not to focus [...]

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Thank you

If you are from Merced, CA….thank you from the bottom of my heart.  I can’t find better words.  I’ll be sending you a real thank you card, but I couldn’t wait.  I hope you see this and know how much what you did means to us.

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More memories

I’m sorry, this one won’t be pretty.  I lost too much of that night already and I can’t lose any more of it to the vagaries of memory.  I have to get it down in writing, what I remember so I can have Shannon fill in what I can’t.  So, I’m just going to start [...]

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A contest

The Crunchy Domestic Goddess is having a giveaway of Shaklee Basic H2 cleaner on her blog.  Go check it out!

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Can we strike the word “Irony” from the language?

I had to take a home pregnancy test Saturday morning so I could start taking birth control pills.

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Because I don’t want to forget

Before Zoë died, I was planning to write a day in the life of a NICU parent post.  I wanted to have a detailed chronicle of what our day was like.  Then the train derailed and it never got written.  Now, before I lose that memory I need to get it down.
The alarm went off at 6am each morning so I could pump. We’d just gotten [...]

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