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A Mood Life: April 2011
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For family. For friends. For fun. Monday, April 11, 2011. But some things I've learned that help with my newly emotioned (making up words here) four-year-old:. Not shouting - me. And most of all, quality time. QT It's got to be Peyton's love language. And quality time with other family members is not the same as quality time with Mommy. I've learned the hard way. She will have my attention one way or the other. Know what I'm sayin'? Of face time to Pey, she is remarkably well-behaved and. How You Can Adv...
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A Mood Life: Five Favorite Decemberings - Part 4 - The Cake
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For family. For friends. For fun. Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Five Favorite Decemberings - Part 4 - The Cake. Okay, it's past the middle of January, so I'm gonna get these out real quick - parts four and five of my favorite Decemberings. And you know why I want to blog so much about December? I know I didn't have to do it, and the great part was that I wasn't doing it to impress anyone. For reals. I did it, racing against the clock, because I just wanted to (for once! January 18, 2012 at 11:49 PM. Five ...
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A Mood Life: Honey's worth waking up for
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For family. For friends. For fun. Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Honey's worth waking up for. Mama Bear's been taking a little nappity nap, and I think I overslept about a year too long. A year, people. I just don't even know about that, but what I do know is that this Mama Bear's been sleeping for too long. Too.long. All I want for Christmas is a new blog post.". You wanted for Christmas from me, well, and maybe you're were also sending a message that you don't want another. So, you lured me out by saying thi...
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A Mood Life: July 2011
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For family. For friends. For fun. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. How to effectively ignore your blog. In case you've been itching to know.here's how you can easily go two-and-half months without blogging, (not that I recommend it):. Your 4-year-old stops taking naps, rendering yourself ready for bed as soon as you tell her. Get a sore throat and consequently rupture your ear drum. Apparently it's not that strange of a connection. Something about tubes in the back of your throat. Bad tubes, bad. Then you win a...
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A Mood Life: December 2011
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For family. For friends. For fun. Saturday, December 17, 2011. Five Favorite Decemberings - Part 2 - The Crush. Yooooo-hoo.look who's here again. I'm even surprising myself. Here we are, Part 2 of my Five Favorite "Decemberings". By the way, has anyone noticed that this is my first blog "series"? In case you missed it. Top Five - Part 2 - The Crush. It looks sort of like this:. See that baby face on the right, she plays an attention-loving, social butterfly in real life. And boy did she impress me, becau...
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A Mood Life: Hug impressions.
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For family. For friends. For fun. Thursday, February 16, 2012. Some people just aren't huggers. They either don't or they do the half-hug. Sometimes it's hard to know when you've reached the hugging point in a new relationship, and that's fair. That's when you see the half-hug stuff. Anyway, I think hugs of either style leave an impression. A well-timed hug can be the best medicine, too. As a friend, as a parent, as a spouse, you just have to know when to shut up and hug. She was fine two minutes ago.
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A Mood Life: January 2012
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For family. For friends. For fun. Monday, January 23, 2012. Five Favorite Decemberings - Part 5 - The Beloved. I'm gonna do it. I'm actually gonna fulfill my promise of Five Favorite Decemberings. You know you were wondering. :-}. My 5th favorite thing about December was not one thing really. Looking back through all the pictures, I see that one of my favorite things was all the time with loved ones, of course. What's Christmas in America without them? Rarely do I catch Peyton and her 10-year-old cousin,...
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A Mood Life: March 2013
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For family. For friends. For fun. Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Honey's worth waking up for. Mama Bear's been taking a little nappity nap, and I think I overslept about a year too long. A year, people. I just don't even know about that, but what I do know is that this Mama Bear's been sleeping for too long. Too.long. All I want for Christmas is a new blog post.". You wanted for Christmas from me, well, and maybe you're were also sending a message that you don't want another. So, you lured me out by saying thi...
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A Mood Life: November 2011
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For family. For friends. For fun. Thursday, November 3, 2011. Why I don't hate sweaters anymore. For example: sweaters. Or rather: Laundering sweaters. Sweaters have it out for me, the Head Laundress. They make me a little grumbly (new word alert! What snobbery. Seeing a big pile of them on the floor the other day had me in a little sweat conspiring with the junk on the dining room table to clear a place for them all to air. dry. Where you gonna put 12 snobby sweaters? Staring at that pecan brown sweater...