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Listen To Your Mother

By on May 16, 2013 in accomplished, besties, camera & photography, family, good times, nerdy apple/cop's wife, peanut, the detective

Saturday was the first (of hopefully many) Listen To Your Mother events in Kansas City. I cannot tell you what a pleasure it was to be a participant. I read this piece (which I’m sure you’re all familiar with by now.) But it was the first time I’d READ the piece. Out loud. For others [...]

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Autumn

By on November 10, 2012 in boo/bubba, family, peanut, pics i love, shorties, squirt/slim

I love autumn in Missouri. Crisp air, brilliant leaves, warm sweaters.                     My shorties love it too. Peanut has an October birthday. Halloween. Fireplace lit.                     Days are shorter. Nights are longer. More time to cuddle. Snuggling [...]

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Happy Halloween (and a message from the Detective)

By on October 31, 2012 in deep thoughts, family, the detective, things i love

Nerdy Apple’s note: When this post went viral, my whole family was affected. To say it was a crazy, surreal time would be an understatement. Before the post went viral, the Detective knew I had a blog, but didn’t read it. He didn’t even know the URL if I’m not mistaken. He didn’t need to [...]

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Sometimes

By on October 22, 2012 in family, squirt/slim
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Decisions, decisions… Halloween ’12 edition

By on September 14, 2012 in family, holidays & celebrations, nerdy apple/cop's wife

Our trip last weekend to costume shops did not consist entirely of me sighing over the ridiculous gender issues that many costumes brought up. We also had some fun. Like when the shorties were put in the.. er… those things in the pictures. I cannot think of what they are called. I must have early [...]

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Take Heed: I will call your parents…

By on July 12, 2012 in deep thoughts, family, motherhood, nerdy apple/cop's wife, soapbox, things i never thought i'd say or do

Image from technorati A few weeks ago, I had a rough go of the whole parenting thing. It was awkward and uncomfortable and rough and I’m not looking forward to ever having to do what I did again. Though I will if I have to. What happened? I found the Twitter feeds of some of [...]

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