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The Cutchshaws: July 2011
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Satan can just go to hell. Did y'all know: The average American woman is 5′ 4″, 164 pounds, and a size 14. In fact, over 50% of women in this country wear a size 14 or larger. I did not know this as I am currently killing myself trying to get my butt in shape. again. for the zillionth time. I have been doing the calorie count thing AGAIN for the past 5 weeks and guess what! I've about starved to death and have lost 2 pounds. 2 pounds! 2 pounds. Gosh! Well, her bite of the forbidde...
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The Cutchshaws: October 2011
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Friday, October 14, 2011. Why I Love Scooters. Have I ever told you the story of why I love scooters? Well, Once upon a time when Nicholas was three months old, Jolie (age 11) and Sydney (age 9) asked me if they could "go down the hill.". That's all they said. "Mommy, can we go down the hill? But that's beside the point and this story is getting off track. The substitute teacher saw the whole thing and no one even called me. But that does not work. Let me tell you. Now I tell my children to fight...I sta...
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The Cutchshaws: Sadistics and Eating Fish out of the Aquarium
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Friday, March 30, 2012. Sadistics and Eating Fish out of the Aquarium. I decided to ask my classmates how they were doing. I got very scientific and asked, "On a scale from 1 to 10, how hard is this class? And what is your major and how smart are you when it comes to math? Was I ever thrilled when nursing, math, and science majors who claim to be smart, told me that this class was a 10. Thinking I was saying, "I'ts Friday! But really, I was just saying, "I am Friday! Which maybe I was that day. Sadistics...
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The Cutchshaws: June 2011
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Thursday, June 23, 2011. It was December 1999. Jolie was five and Sydney was three. I was a single mother and Adrian and I were falling in love. Adrian was 40 years old and had never been a father before. I thought it would be good to have a series of tests to see if he would be a good father or not. The first test was a very simple one. He ran upstairs and found Sydney standing on the vanity in the bathroom with a pair of scissors in her hand going chop, chop, chop! I asked, "Do you want to run away?
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The Cutchshaws: Fripp Island
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Sunday, July 14, 2013. So, we just got back from our annual vacation at Fripp Island, South Carolina. Mama and Daddy started this tradition about 30 years ago, squeezing me and my two sisters into the back seat of our Jetta, with a trunk full of bathing suits, towels, clothes, food, and books, and we'd suffer through a hot and cramped six hour car ride, stopping only ONCE for lunch and fuel. The seat belts that we weren't required to wear by law, but by mom, always cooked while you exited the car during ...
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The Cutchshaws: December 2012
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Saturday, December 15, 2012. Mending the Seams (Christmas Letter 2012). Dear Family and Friends,. This past semester in college did a number on me. I feel a bit wrung out. I just wrapped up another religion class, Theology 301. For a while there, I thought I had everything pretty much figured out, which is usually the first big clue that I am totally lost. And when I feel lost and messed up, I am ironically closer. Isn’t that refreshing? So, this is the place from where I am coming- a place where I just ...
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The Cutchshaws: December 2011
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011. I am having a hard time comprehending that I actually finished my first semester in college. For many of you who went to college right after high school this may be difficult to understand what the big deal is. To me, it's a huge deal. I wasn't even sure if I could do it. Seriously. My trying attitdue was right, but my head was also filled with doubts. Many doubts. I cannot climb up there. It's like 13 feet in the air! I get dizzy on the step ladder. Seriously.". I went up hi...
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The Cutchshaws: Sharp Knives and Lingerie... deep thoughts about motherhood
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Monday, December 30, 2013. Sharp Knives and Lingerie. deep thoughts about motherhood. As I was cleaning the kitchen this morning, I put a knife in the utility drawer. I didn't even think about it. I just plopped that sharp baby right in the drawer and went about my business scrubbing the yick and the yuck from the weekend. I ain't got no babies any more. I have five children, gave birth to them all, and my oldest will be 20 years old this summer. Leapin' lizards! All those annoying old people were right!
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The Cutchshaws: Lost and Found
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Monday, July 29, 2013. I was recently asked what my greatest shortcoming is. Gosh, I don't know. There are too many to choose from. It's certainly hard to pick the "greatest" one. I suppose the one that hinders my life the most is my absolute lack of navigational skills. I can get lost anywhere, any time. I get lost in buildings. I get turned around easily. I have no innate sense of east or west, north or south. I forget where I have been, locationally speaking. The first time I got lost in a building wa...
