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Live Aloha
My work place tends to get a bit stressful. It's not uncommon to work over 50 hours in a week, plus I have an hour drive to/from the office. Put on top of that trying to make time to work out, be a...
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Happy Merry Mary Day
Happy Birthday Mary!Happy Birthday Mary – You are named after your Great-Grandmothers, but your name has brought new meaning as you get older. You are such a happy little girl, you are my Merry...
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February in a Flash!
Holy moley where did February go? Work has been so busy, which is great, but I have just been exhausted every night and updating kept getting pushed to tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.The house is...
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Seahorse
Mary's new gogglesMary started “Baby Swim” class when she was 8mos old. Brian would get in the pool with her and they would sing, bob around the water and catch duckies and put them in the bucket. When...
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Footprints
A few weeks ago during a sunny, snowy afternoon, Mary and I ventured out into the pristine snow. I thought it would be cute to get a picture of our footprints walking side-by-side, but Miss Mary had...
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My Storm Trooper
Brian going out to snow blow the neighborhoodI never want to start out on a negative note, but….March in Chicagoland sucks. It’s a schizophrenic month. Last year at this time, Mary had on a...
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Working Girl
A few months ago I as boo-hoo-ing to my mommy group about how I'm not present in Mary's life. We were going through our bedtime routine, rocking and reading a book called "Mommy Kisses" where mommy...
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Happy Easter!
(I started working on this post on the day after Easter...then things got busy...sorry for the delay!)Okay, so I've never been that big into Easter, but we had a BLAST this year. We were invited to a...
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God Bless Dr. Bloom
Okay so when Mary broke her tooth, I know we said we wouldn't fix it. After all, it's a BABY tooth - as my brother said, "Save that money for braces later on." But the more I saw, it the more I lived...
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It's GONE
Lonely front stepsWhen I drive to work, I take some smaller back roads that go through farmland. There is one little farm where a house in the distance often captured my attention. A cute square house...
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Whoops...
I seem to have lost a month. If anyone finds it, that would be great. So a quick synopsis:The week after my last post, I worked 60 or so hours and was ignoring a sore throat.The next week Brian left...
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UGH, the time has slipped away from me again, work has been the busiest of my life and the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer - I have so many posts that I have started and vow to get...
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Mother of the Year
(I hate to admit that this happen a while ago, but it deserves its own post and not just a brief re-cap) Remember Mary cracked her tooth? Remember we got it fixed? A little over a month after we got it...
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Home Again
One day, Brian announced that he was partaking in a stand-up paddleboard race in Lake Geneva the following week.Me: Really? Honey you’ve never paddled a S’up before.Him: I know, but I’m going out with...
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Welcome Home McGough Family!
(Yes, this happen over the summer, I'm finally getting caught up!!) As I have written before, I think that houses have feelings. So much happens in a house, how can some of that not rub off on lathe...
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20 weeks
(Yes, I've been meaning to start this post for the past 12 weeks...)On July 16th, 2013 we got a little surprise. I had a feeling for the previous couple days, and the morning after Brian's birthday I...
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This Pregnancy and other Happenings
THIS PREGNANCY:36 weeks - 2-22-14For the past couple months, I lie in bed many nights and mornings…and sometimes even in the middle of the night thinking of this blog post. When I’m driving to/from...
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Home Alone...
Home-alone-selfieSomething happen a few weekends ago that N-E-V-E-R happens. I was home alone for more than two whole hours. Usually my time alone is weekend mornings when everyone else is still...
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Pearl
As I type this, I can hear the squeaks and peeps from my one-month-old sweet little Pearl in the cradle next to me. Last night for her birthday, she gave me the best gift of all – Six hours of sleep in...
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9 and 1/2 weeks
Next week I have to go back to work. They would give me more time. But I need to go back. We’ve done really well with money while I was out, we hardly had to dip into savings at all, and now it is time...
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Outside the Mommy Box
I had some pretty big plans for my maternity leave. I really wanted to go out and make some memories with Mary. But when I was in the thick of it, I was reminded that maternity leave really is...
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Father's Day Interview
Okay it was a few weeks ago, but this is too cute not to share. For Brian's Father's Day card, I interviewed Mary - it turned out so cute, I may do this every year to see how her answers change:Q: What...
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Gut Check
After being back to work about two weeks, I bumped into someone at the office who was in my class in elementary school. She is pretty high up in the company and recently took on a new job to basically...
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3 Years and 3 Weeks
I didn't get pictures taken of Mary when she was teeny-weeny, and I kind of regret it. I forget how little she was. I knew I wanted to get some pictures taken of Pearl when she was little, and I though...
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Pearl's Song
I love singing to my girls. When Mary came I had countless songs to sing to her with "Mary" in them. It wasn't until Pearl was about 3 weeks old my sister told me about the song "Pearlie Shells" which...
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