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The Happiest Baby on The Block
There was a time...when I was petrified to be a mom and I wondered if I would love the little person growing inside of me.There was a time...when Mary was 4weeks-10weeks old and screamed every night...
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Buddies
Mary & Brian - October 2012These two are such great buddies...I'm a little jealous. They have inside jokes that I don't get. I'll come home and they will start whispering to each other or...
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Recent Pics 10/29/2012
What a beautiful fall it has been! Mary is busier than ever - Fall Festival, Haircut, A new Swing! and the Pumpkin Patch. What fun it all is to see Mary experience all of this for the first time....
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Happy Halloween 2012
I consider this Mary's first Halloween, last year, she was still just a baby and my mom gave her Puffs to much on. This year, I actually made her costume and took her out to a few houses. Brian and I...
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Adaptability
"The only constant in life is change"I was pulling out of the driveway a few weeks ago and I saw this in the back yard - that is Brian's canoe drying on Mary's slide. I had to take a picture because it...
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Thankful Family
(I know it's been too long since I've posted when Brian reminds me nightly that I need to post new stuff)This year once again, we went to my Dad's Cousin's house for Thanksgiving. Ralph and Nancy have...
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Dear Mary,
22 months ago today you came and made us a family! I used to think it was silly when parents would say the age of their child as high as 17mos - I thought at that point you should just say "a...
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Girl in a Bubble
Mary and Bubbles - Summer 2012Dear Mary,A bad thing happen this week to a lot of little kids in a Connecticut school. I’m glad you aren’t old enough to understand it so I don’t have to explain it to...
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December
Just a few notes and pics from a busy month.We kicked off the Holiday Season with a date night at the Service League Dance. My mom was very active in the Service League when I was growing up and I...
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Merry Christmas to All
Just a few pictures from our Christmas Day! Christmas Eve we went to Emery's - I think it was the 25 years ago that I went to the first party at their house. this year, Mary got to make her debut, she...
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Random Acts Of Kindness
With the shooting in Connecticut a lot of people have been doing Random Acts of Kindness Campaigns. I know of another woman who encourages others to do random acts in her daughter's memory. It seems...
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'Ohana Jeffries Top 10 for '12
The Jeffries playing ball in the family room on New Year's Eve10) Joined a gym - I'm apparently one of those people who can't get motivated on their own. It takes a chunk of money going toward an...
View ArticleA Mother's Hands
A mother's hands really do mean so much. They are the first things that clasp that little baby as she is laid on your belly. A mother's hands feed, nurture, heal, point to pictures on pages, color and...
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Resolutions
I haven't been taking very good care of myself for...oh... the last few years and it's starting to show.My long hair doesn't look as beachy and fresh in the mid-west as it did in Ventura - up every day...
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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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