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Sparking Joy All Over My House*
I’ve been meaning to sit down and write for several days, but it’s been a wild week. Miss S was quite sick last week and long story short, we ended up spending several hours in emerge as she just couldn’t stop vomiting. She had been doing really well on the antibiotics for strep throat, but within 36 hours of finishing them, she was completely laid out with some kind of nasty virus. My doctor was worried about dehydration and referred us to the hospital as she wanted S on an IV. The vomiting finally slowed down while we were waiting in emerge, and the doctor there was able to give…
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We left the house!!
We had a really great impromptu family day yesterday. Best of all, it was outside of my house. After 10 days of sickness, it felt so good to get out. S & H usually have ringette on Saturday mornings, and M is usually the one to take them. I hang out at home with P, who in the past has been a bit of a holy terror at the rink. When we tried to take him last year so I could see the kids play, he was running up and down the arena seats, sprinting down the aisles, making a mad dash for the changerooms and attempting to lick the…
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Sometimes, I Miss it*
Do you remember what your life was like before Facebook? I can’t explain exactly why, but I’ve been thinking about this for almost a week and I can’t stop. I think my generation (or even more specifically, my age group) is kind of unique in that we’ve lived half our lives in one world (before social media), and the other half in another. Social media wasn’t really a “thing” until the tail end of my high school career, and I had already been married a year before a few friends told me I needed to join this new site called “Facebook”. Back then it was exclusively for college and university…
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My Word for 2019*
I seriously debated whether or not to publish my last post. Actually, to be honest, I debated whether or not I should even write it. I knew it would be sad before I even sat down, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to put that “out there” on Christmas Day. In the end, I decided to write because I needed to write… and I’m so glad that I did. Immediately after I posted it I had a flood of messages and comments come in from some pretty wonderful people. It was an instant reminder that while I may have been without my big family at Christmas, I wasn’t alone.…
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Not My Merriest Christmas*
Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful day filled with family and friends… or at the very least that you got a good nap in. I was not at my best today. It was a hard day for me, and I didn’t try as hard as I should have… but let me explain a little. I mentioned earlier that S & H woke up with fevers on Wednesday morning. What I was hoping was just a 24 hour bug just wouldn’t go away, and after 3 days of non-stop fever I knew I had to get them seen. Luckily my doctor’s office has a urgent care walk in…
