What is the correlation between adopting and owning a gun?

When I was younger, I always thought I may want to adopt in the future. When I thought I wasn’t going to get married, I really thought I would adopt once I ’settled down’.
Life had other plans for me. I got married and now am pregnant with our first.
A part of me still [...]

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Week 28…feeling PREGNANT

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Originally uploaded by dragonfly_727

I think as soon as I posted Week 27, I started to expand at an increasing rate. I know I am pregnant…but now I FEEL it. I waddle when I walk. My belly catches crumbs, liquid, or whatever I need a temporary place to rest it.
Noodles is moving around A LOT. My [...]

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Interesting…and random…baby/kid ‘in the news’

Because we’re looking for the perfect name for Noodles, this one caught my attention:
Child in Australia goes to court to change her name.
The following aren’t nearly as bad…but still unique.
Being in education, I’ve heard my share of unique names. This is not “Oh, I heard it from a friend of a friend.” Either I [...]

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Baby (room) on the brain

B and our friends have been having babies around the same time left and right. Which is really nice once we have our own…many ready made playmates. But with so many babies around, talk turns to…well, baby things. Right now, a few of us were talking about the ideal baby room. So for this post, [...]

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Evolution of a blog…Evolution of a parent

When I first started this blog…or rather the first versions on other blog services…I was doing it more as a ‘diary’ and a place to keep all of my internet ‘finds’ and fav sites.
Looking at all of my past entries, I can see how I have changed…don’t know if I have ‘grown’ necessarily…but definitely changed. [...]

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3000

That’s the magic number. It’s not exact…but about how many diapers Noodles will go through the first year of his life.
Is that not amazing?! The mind boggles!
The math: about 10-12 diaper changes a day…for 365…but it does taper off a little to around 8 a day the latter part of the year. So averaging it [...]

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Don’t Mess with Texas…old ladies, that is.

I got this a while ago back. Made me laugh until I practically wet myself.
I’m cleaning out my email box because I’m constantly getting ‘your mailbox is full’ reminders.
So I don’t lose it, posting it here for ’safe keeping’ and for others to enjoy.

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You know what I miss?

I am learning there are several things I have taken for granted during this pregnancy.
For example, I miss the following things:
1. Chicken: we used to love chicken in any form. But now, the texture of it…the taste…I don’t really like. I can still eat it, but the sauce has to mask the flavor of the [...]

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Week 27…officially in our LAST trimester

I can’t believe how fast time has flown by. (Actually, it’s 27 or 28 weeks…depending on which doctor.)

I didn’t think I was ever going to get to the 3rd trimester…and here we are.
I just took this picture a few hours ago. May have unintentionally held in my tummy…because isn’t that what “they” always tell you [...]

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Serious thoughts on a lazy Summer Day

Being a teacher, I’m off for the summer. I don’t have to do anything. But I did promise myself to get up with my honey, change clothes, do my morning ablution, etc. I think I stayed in my sleepwear until noon two days. Not bad. Right?
As this is my very last summer of [...]

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