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Dear 2012, I thought your friends 2009, 2010, and 2011 were rough! I had no idea what was coming. Maybe I am just worn down after the last 3 years. Maybe I'm just older and I can't fathom doing this for the rest of my life. I don't know. You started off ok. Couple of colds, a few fevers. Then Spencer had the flu. Spencer had the flu and I washed a ton of laundry because he couldn't make it to

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Facebook has brought me back in touch with people that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't have ever seen again. In some instances, that's not so great. In others, though, I get a glimpse into my past that I had kind of forgotten was there. I went to high school at a very small school. Like, I stared at corn when I was done with a test and other people were still working on it because...well,

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You all know by now that I find all kinds of ways to save money. Right? Right. Thought so. Well, one of those ways is with SavingStar. You clip coupons right onto your store loyalty card from their website or super handy dandy smartphone app. The savings aren't immediate, but they are credited to your SavingStar account. When you get to $5 you can cash out via PayPal. It's easy! Right now they

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Sunday is Spencer's birthday. He will be 4. Already. The past few years, even though his dad didn't live with us, I planned a "family activity." Last year, for example, all three of us went to see Cars 2. Things are different this year, though. His dad is engaged and works 728 hours a week (at least). Spencer and I have really become more of our own family entity. Not that his dad isn't

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Oh, Mama Kat, you've always got me thinking. In response to one of this weeks prompts, I have compiled a list of ways that you know without a doubt that you are a mother. * There's a booger in your hair. You don't know who it belongs to. * Who cares where if it's 5 o'clock somewhere? Is it bedtime yet? * You highly consider asking your mother if you can move back in with her so that there

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Today I have a guest post from one of my favorite bloggers. You may remember her. She wrote a guest post for the old blog. It was one of my favorite posts, and I am so glad she agreed to share her thoughts on parenting. Even though she doesn't have any children of her own, she is one of the smartest, most insightful people I've ever "met." She's one of my greatest Twitter friends. I'm going

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Continuing the series of guest posts on parenting, I'm proud to present Christine. Her blog is always a joy to read, and I'm so glad to hear her take on parenting. All of these are great, and I know that in my day to day life I tend to forget about them. I suggest you all go check out her blog. She's one of those bloggers that can make me laugh and cry in the same post, and I'm so glad she

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This is hard for me. It's not that I don't know what my mom did for me. It's not that I don't know what I do for my son. It's just hard to describe. A mother is someone who gives everything she has to her kids. When she is drained and cannot possibly give any more, she finds more to give. A mother does not know her own worth, even though she knows that other mothers don't know their own worth.

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I'm going to tell you a story. A story that does not make me proud...yet. It's a story about a little girl with her head in the clouds. There once was a little girl who didn't know exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up. She took people's practical recommendations. Sometimes she said she wanted to be a teacher. Sometimes she would proclaim that she wanted to be a nurse. Sometimes she

Kadiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12343970546802517113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189820456432326373.post-80415002877617815972012-04-24T11:54:00.004-04:002012-04-24T12:01:35.951-04:00

The other day I said I was going to have guest posts from many of you answering this question. Since the sickness from hell has taken over my house, I'm going to start today. This first post was written by a single male friend of mine (in real life....yeah I have some real life friends, too). So, I present you with Paul's thoughts on parenting! Who's Your Daddy? by Paul Weston

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Everyone looks at the world differently. What's right for you isn't necessarily right for me or my son. I am always interested in how parenting means different things to different people. So today I decided to see if I could unite some of our different opinions. I took to Twitter and just started asking people to write a guest post for me about what parenting means to them. I found a great group

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I got the email this Monday as I always do from Mama Kat with the writing prompts for this week. I haven't participated lately. I don't always. I saw the topic, "A promise." This one sort of stuck out for me. There are many directions I could take this, but instead, I'm just going to write what comes to mind about the topic. You see, I'm a little jaded about promises. Between my own absent

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I could be making all of the wrong decisions for my son. I COULD be messing everything up. I'm sure some people think that all single parents are messing their kids up completely. I could be doing everything right though. For all I know, I could be raising the next Gandhi. A future president. A priest (although that's highly unlikely since we are not Catholic...but you never know). So, to

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I have these all saved on my computer from various projects. I just looked through and laughed. Hope you guys enjoy them, too!

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Not to purposely turn this into a blog about songs that seem relevant on any given day...but...yeah..

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I'm sure you guys have all heard the song What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) by Kelly Clarkson, right? No? I recommend you do if you haven't. I'm not usually a Kelly Clarkson fan, but this part of this song has been stuck in my head for weeks: You think you've got the best of me Think you've had enough the last laugh Bet you think that everything good is gone Think you left me broken down Think

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So the day after I started this brand new blog I thought it would be a really awesome idea to see what would happen if I broke my wrist. You know what happens? You can't type. Know what happens if you can't type and your job is to type? Nothing good... Since everyone has asked what happened, here it is. Spencer was really sick. He threw up on everything. I washed approximately 512 loads of

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Yesterday Spencer saw the trailer for Madagascar 3. If you haven't seen it, I will put it here for you. Ok. The song at the end? Spencer has been singing that for a full 24 hours now. Made me think about all of those songs that just won't get out of your head once they get in....So I found a previously compiled list (luckily enough from one of the companies I work for! Haha). What would you

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For almost 3 years now I have been rebuilding my life. When I recently realized that none of my posts from my other blog really related to relationships anymore, I also realized it was time to move on. Time to truly start over. I accomplished what I needed to with that blog. Now it's time for some fun. Some of you may remember my brief Blogger encounter last year. Yes, I wanted to show you all

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