Tag: Kids
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Making 2023 My Year
A new year is here! New year, new me…right? So many people say to not set resolutions, to not start with a new gym or eating goal, and to just keep doing what you’ve been doing because well you’re bound to fail anyway. I think that this is totally wrong! Yep, WRONG! I believe in…
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Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023!
2022 has been a heck of a year! A year filled with love, excitement, disappointment, mistakes, happiness, sadness. All of the things. As I was making my 2023 Resolutions the other day I got to thinking back on 2022 month-by-month. January – Brooks turned 1! We had hit this first birthday milestone and felt good…
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Buy Dirt
That’s exactly what we did. We bought dirt. The housing market was crazy awesome. We saw an opportunity, lined up our affairs, and boom. Dirt acquired. The house building process is a CRAZY one… everyone warned us. They were right. In the words of the man at Lowe’s, “Your husband is the contractor and y’all…
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Back to School!
Whew…the whirlwind of back to school has come and, well frankly, not gone. What a wild start to the year. So many things to do, so much normalcy to get back to, so many meetings to be had, and yet, so much fun to be had in the first days! The district I teach in…
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L-I-V-I-N
“Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’ man, L-I-V-I-N.”-Dazed and Confused, Matthew McConaughey I had a friend tell me recently that they wondered how they had made it to where they were. They thought they’d be…
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Broken Kid Mentality
Our pediatrician said it best at Brooks’ 15-month check-up back in April.. “I know, it’s hard to not think the worst. I mean you have this “broken child,” this “sick kid,” and it’s hard to change the mindset with the trauma that you’ve been experienced.” WHOA. I haven’t been stopped in my tracks that fast…
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