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Breathe In Breathe Out: April 2013
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Friday, April 26, 2013. Right now I’m trying really hard not to eat cake. The thing is, it seems like eating cake might make my day better and, you see, I have so much of it. I had my own little Cake Wreck. Yesterday. I didn’t take pictures because it was just your run-of-the-mill crumb and frosting collapse. He said, “How about a vampire party then? I said, “Ok, you can have a Minecraft party.”. Yeah, that fell apart too. Honestly, at one time I was good at this stuff. We once had a pirate-themed. Talk ...
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Breathe In Breathe Out: September 2012
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Sunday, September 23, 2012. Adventures in Accidental Parenting. Parents, does it always happen this way? One minute you’re having an innocent spaghetti dinner with the family and the next you’re in a full-on birds and bees discussion. And then, as if to prove a point, your box turtles start going at it in the next room. But lately they’ve been asking, “What does the bad S word mean? 8221; “What does the bad B word mean? Kory: Then you don’t want to know anything more. We could tell something clicked in h...
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Breathe In Breathe Out: January 2013
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Thursday, January 24, 2013. Nothing Says "I'm Sorry" Like . . . So Chunky had a fight with his special friend. He came home Tuesday with a disjointed tale of lunchroom rejection. I gave him the “Sometimes Girls Need Space” line, which I’ve used on him more frequently this school year. After some discussion, I suggested to Chunky that he draw his friend an “I’m sorry” picture. He liked the idea but chose bedtime to create his work of art. I slumped into his room, aggravated that he was still drawing at hi...
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Breathe In Breathe Out: May 2012
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Monday, May 21, 2012. Our Tooth Fairy is second rate. I wonder if I could explain to my kids that their fairy dropped out of high school, flunked her entrance exam to Tooth Compensation School twice, and is holding on to her job by a thread of dental floss? Some of you might remember last year’s Epic Tooth Fairy Fail. And the resulting tears from my youngest. Well, I had a chance to redeem myself this weekend. We got the boys in bed and headed down to watch Doctor Who, because that is what I’m doin...
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Breathe In Breathe Out: March 2012
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Monday, March 26, 2012. Pinterest Boards and Falling in Love with Characters. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I wasn’t going to join Pinterest. I was just going to make fun of my mom’s newest obsession. But then my friend, Brandy Vallance. Told me she’d made a Pinterest board for her novel after reading about the idea on agent Rachelle Gardner’s blog. I checked out her board for. And knew I had to make boards for two of my completed novels and an inspiration board for my work in progress. But really, how...
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Breathe In Breathe Out: A Breather
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013. I couldn’t resist having my picture taken in front of this tourist trap with the word Curio in the name. The store was jam-packed with old-fashioned curio cabinets like the enchanted one in my recently completed novel. I confess I might’ve studied the contents to make sure nothing inside hinted at a magical universe. I tend to take a more honest approach to life. Breathe In Breathe Out has featured my messy journey through womanhood, motherhood, and my writing pursuits. It’...
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Breathe In Breathe Out: October 2012
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Friday, October 26, 2012. A Halloween Bug Story, Part 2. Last week in A Halloween Bug Story. I told you about our adventurous walk and the critters we encountered. Well, we’ve had quite a week with Chunky’s doodle bug, which for some reason he didn’t name until Wednesday when he took it to school for show and tell. But let’s back up a few nights. Abject wailing brought me running to Chunky’s room one evening early this week. I found him curled into a roly-poly type ball on the floor. 8220;I lost him!
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Breathe In Breathe Out: November 2012
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Thursday, November 29, 2012. A Little Disaster Preparedness is Always a Good Thing. I could always stand to brush up on my. We don’t have hurricanes in Colorado. We do have blizzards, but all the preparation they require is a trip to the store for milk and chocolate chip cookie ingredients. Nevertheless, I like to be prepared for emergencies. That’s also why I made arrangements to lie low this weekend while adjusting to a new migraine medication that has a lot of possible side effects. It’...Conside...
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Breathe In Breathe Out: July 2012
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Is summer over yet? I’m so ready to say good-bye to summer 2012. Then came the tragic events in Aurora on Friday, July 20th. It’s mind-blowing to think that my husband survived a rollover and twelve people didn’t survive a night at the movies. This is not the sort of thing you can make sense of. Everything we tell ourselves—that God had a plan, that death is part of life—none of it reconciles the gut-wrenching wrongness. Of a psychopath murdering innocent people. This juxtapositio...
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