29 Sep
After a perfect evening celebrating our wedding anniversary last Saturday night, my husband and I drove out to my parents’ home on Sunday morning, 35 minutes away, to pick up our Little Man.
My son loves his ‘pajama parties’ at my folks and always brings a few essentials besides clothes and pjs: his favorite blanket, [...]
Posted in Toys, dc metro moms by: Nicole
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27 Sep
Check me out at ‘Becoming A Mother’.
It’s a great site for new moms and expectant moms.
I share a post on sleep deprivation and not being able to understand a children’s cartoon…
But hasn’t that happened to all of us? Please, tell me I’m not the only one who was fuzzy around the birth [...]
Posted in Babies by: Nicole
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26 Sep
Our neighbors across the street have a problem with their sewer.
This is the view from my front door.
Oh wait, it’s changing.
Yes, that’s a full size bulldozer. Luckily, I’ve already made friends with the guy who is in charge of this ‘excavation project’…
The good news, he says, is that they won’t start [...]
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25 Sep
Next week I have our moms meeting for my son’s preschool class.
I have already prepared a very short speech, so parents are not frightened or offended…
It goes like this:
“Ladies, so nice to see you all that I know and so nice to be able to meet the rest of you. You may know my [...]
Posted in School by: Nicole
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23 Sep
I don’t usually touch on news stories here but people have to know about this. A fellow mom and Silicon Valley Moms Blogger shared this story.
A young man with Down Syndrome, 16 years old, was put in a closet for ‘outbursts’ during class. Teachers and school officials then called the police on him [...]
Posted in School by: Nicole
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22 Sep
CONGRATULATIONS TO MY DAD! He is a retired biochemist and now, avid rose and Dahlia grower. His Dahlias are now winning awards!
The Dahlia above won Best In Show at the National Capital Dahlia Society Show. Those are my son’s hands around the bloom, as you can make out, the flower is just about as [...]
Posted in Home by: Nicole
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20 Sep
Check me out at DC Metro Moms, talking about consignment shopping in the DC area!
Posted in Economics by: Nicole
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19 Sep
11 years ago, on this weekend, my husband and I got married.
It was the best weeding and reception I’ve ever been to, of course. It doesn’t seem like that much time has passed on one hand, on the other, it seems like so long ago.
It was a great day. Remembering that day, [...]
Posted in Toddlers by: Nicole
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18 Sep
Continuing on my self–disclosure kick…
The other evening I flipped open the chair you see above. It’s a great chair, it’s been through a lot of vomit as I related in another post.
If my Little Man needs a snack or juice in the living room, he sits in this chair. It’s also nice [...]
Posted in Furniture by: Nicole
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17 Sep
Just another note about Giant Food; they’re giving away a year of free groceries every week for the next several weeks. Go HERE to enter…
FREE GROCERIES FOR A YEAR… what could be better?! Actually, when you read the fine print it’s $5,200.00 of free groceries, so $100 of free groceries for a year- [...]
Posted in Food and Drink by: Nicole
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