What No Sleep Looks Like

January 11, 2012

I’m suffering through another round of insomnia. It’s very frustrating. I’ve always been a night owl but after we moved, I started rising early, before the rest of the family. It was nice to have the whole day stretch out in front of me. Then I got sick before the new year and everything got [...]

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To The ‘Burbs

January 10, 2012

One of the reasons we moved to our new town in the suburbs was to be closer to family. Mine, his, ours. My parents help us out a lot, and we are so thankful. I like to think they get a little something out of it too – namely time with their best girls (and [...]

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Full Moon

January 9, 2012

Yesterday I took a day to be just me. Well, an afternoon. I went to the mall, where I could be just me, surrounded by a bazillion people. I walked around. Tried on clothes and bags and shoes. I went into stores with breakable things and I didn’t have to worry about anyone breaking anything. [...]

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Sibling Secret Society

January 5, 2012

My brother and I shared a room from birth until early in elementary school. At some point, my mother alleges, I was asked which bedroom I wanted for myself: the room I currently shared with my brother, or the guest room. This is when I supposedly picked the guest room. I find all of this [...]

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Recognition

January 4, 2012

After my grandma died and her funeral was over, my mom and I took my aunt and uncle to the train station. The rest of our relatives had long since left, but they had lingered. They knew what I hadn’t realized yet.  I stood on the train platform and watched their train roll away, and [...]

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Annie Nightingale

January 3, 2012

Annabel hasn’t had a diaper blow-out or vomit incident since Sunday. THANK GOODNESS. I have not been so lucky. A respiratory bug and stomach flu are both crappy enough on their own, but together? Really super crappy…no pun intended. Any time that isn’t spent in the bathroom is spent laying in bed or (when my [...]

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