I’m feeling incredibly sad and frustrated this Memorial Day Weekend. As I write this, just under one hundred thousand people have died of the coronavirus in the United States, with 345,000 total deaths worldwide. I ache for the families who’ve lost their loved ones, and I am frustrated with the people who are out there…

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I hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day. Mike and the kids woke me up with breakfast in bed, handmade cards, and lots of love and snuggles. We FaceTimed Mike’s mom up in the Bay Area and we had a socially-distant lunch with my mom in my parents’ yard. Not a typical Mother’s Day,…

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Well. Another Sunday, another week in quarantine. I feel like we were just going through the motions this week. The kids are just OVER IT. We’ve been doing as much as we can to help them with this whole thing – FaceTiming friends, doing drive-bys so they can see each other – but nothing compares…

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Hi, everyone. Thanks to all who sent emails and left comments about the anniversary of Maddie’s passing. It was eerie this year…she died the Tuesday before Easter, and this year April 7 fell on…the Tuesday before Easter. So between that and quarantine, I’ve been laying reeeeeally low. One of the things that’s so hard about…

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Will any of you be surprised to hear I had a complication with my oral surgery? Of course you won’t be. That kind of thing always happens to me! I developed something called a “dry socket,” which has required me to go to the surgeon’s office three times this week for treatment and packing. So,…

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