*jjill holiday catalogThe holiday mailers are in full swing.  I like them.  They are welcomed  in my home.  (much more so than the political crap!)  They are pretty and happy and full of good things that I want to purchase.  They are also very inspirational.  I like this one. What's your simple wish?This is the first thing I read when I pulled the mail...

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*charlie + max, thanksgiving 2010.If there is nothing else in the world that says everything else doesnt matter but this, this picture says it all.  For everyone. Charlie is one half of the twinkies and is the shy one, or the one who likes to do things his way, and he'll come around when he wants to.  Up until now, he really hasnt shown...

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I am thankful all year through, but this time of year I find myself being exceptionally grateful.  Now that Max is here, I wake each day saying a prayer of thanks for him, but he allows a whole new light to shine and giving a new meaning to the holidays. Besides Max, I am thankful for my family, all of them.  For my health.  I...

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This week I've noticed so many changes in Max, especially around his mobile independence.  Take a look at the photos below and you'll wholeheartedly agree. **He now holds his bottle all by himself.  Rarely does he need my help.  Maybe on days where he practically wants to like the inside, is when he needs my help.  **Or sitting in the store carts.  No more...

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Making some changes around here.   (As I have been saying for the past few months, if not longer!)  I am expecting by the first of the year this will be a whole new place.  I am excited.  ...

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I'll be the first to admit that I surely am my own worst critic.  I think my critic though has a chronic problem.  Its unusually critical.  Like over-the-top-obsessive-compulsive-wicked-witch-of-the-east problem. I had posted this shortly after I had given birth.  My body simply amazed me at what it was capable of.  This week, the critic, lets call it Lord Voldemort, had found its residence again in...

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*photo creditI have been surprising myself lately with the things that I want for Max.  Before I was pregnant I never gave two seconds of a thought to christmas stockings, school pictures or how much of an impact I will have on Max just being a role model for him.All of these items have come front and center as of late. Over the weekend...

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photo creditDating.I've been doing it since I was probably fifteen or sixteen years old.  Seems the type of male I am attracted to might not exist.  This morning I was able to actually verbalize my frustrations with it. In case you didnt notice, I'm single.  Have been for a while now.  Seems the men that present themselves in my life are of the same...

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All parents love their children.  How many parents can say they actually like their children?  Over the weekend, I was able to get a snippet of what is to come, I think.  Max was just talking away on Saturday as we were getting ready to run some errands. He would talk a bit, then laugh (or what appears to be a laugh), then talk...

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Its starting to feel like the holidays now.  Today I am inspired to fancy the Goodwill and a few other resale and craft shops to get ideas for the blank canvas I have in the dining area. I read something the other day in a parenting magazine how dressing up for Halloween left an impression on one parent as a child, and is doing...

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Dear Max,Today is your half birthday.  You are six months old.  I remember about a week after your birth, I had wished for you to be six months old so that I knew what you would like, dislike, smile, laugh and most of all have a routine.  Thankfully my wish didnt come true too quickly, but the time does move fast.  You are...

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