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a different way to celebrate the fourth of july

Posted in adoption, choir, family, tagged , , , , , , , on July 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Last year, Fourth of July weekend was a bit of a bummer.  We were dealing with a broken adoption match and the heartbreak was intense.
This year was much different.
We now have Ginny.  Our sweet, loving, adorable girl who has changed our lives.  You would think we would be big into the fireworks and freedom celebrations.  [...]

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baseball bat sucessfully applied to nurse

Posted in family, tagged , , , , , , , on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

okay not really.
mostly the metaphorical bat got applied to my overactive guilt complex.  Thank you for all your encouragement, comments and prayers.
So this morning at 4 a.m. Ginny was breathing really heavily.  wheezing and rattling and just having trouble.  She wasn’t struggling per-se and she still had no fever, but…
yes, sad to say I, logical [...]

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sleepy voices

Posted in work, tagged , , on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Ginny is 14 weeks today.
She is generally sleeping 7 hours at a stretch in the evenings
Sometimes this works out where mommy and daddy actually get seven hours of sleep too. Last night didn’t work that way.
Ginny went to sleep in her cradle at about 7 p.m. yay!
Mommy and daddy made the mistake of [...]

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how to get more sleep

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on December 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Ginny is about to out grow her cradle.
Which means we will shortly have to move her to her real crib in her actual nursery.
Up till now she has slept in a hand crafted cradle that my father made. She sleeps just three feet from our bed. Which means we hear her REALLY well [...]

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it has happened twice now

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on November 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »

are you ready for this?
my daughter, who is only just over 12 weeks old
Slept. For. TWELVE. HOURS. Yesterday.
It happened once last week too.  Basically she takes a late afternoon bottle.  Then the following things happen in this order:

She gets burped
We put her in her car seat
We head for Wal-Mart for a major shopping trip
We put [...]

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is it Friday yet?

Posted in work, tagged , , , on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

yes? oh good. Cause I’m tired and I really really didn’t want to get up this morning.
Actually that’s not entirely accurate: I got up to get a bath just fine. But once I was all nice and clean, I made the mistake of crawling back into the nice warm bed and snuggling [...]

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