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When the cat’s away the mice will play

Posted in Brian, Brian as Dad, Emma, Family, Home, Life, tagged , on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Brian’s off molesting fish- he’s been gone since Thursday.  We signed the offer on the house (ACCEPTED!) and then he left.  No celebrating for us.  (I’m guessing he did an entire bottle’s worth of gin celebrating without me though!) Every year on the first weekend of May, Brian and his dad and all of their [...]

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Brian says “Why are you always taking pictures woman?”

Posted in Brian, Brian as Dad, Emma, Family, Love, Parenting, life is good, tagged , on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“All we are doing is testing out a potential camping chair and snuggling and you are always taking pictures!” Not really, he just looked it.  He doesn’t like his picture taken. The chair? Super comfortable- much easier to snuggle small child than in conventional camping chair…

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Random Share

Posted in Brian, Brian as Dad, Emma, Family, Home, Life, Love, Parenting, life is good on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The number of times in a year we buy “cereal” (as in sugar coated unhealthy deliciousness in a box ) is equal to about 2. Actually, I think it’s probably less than that because we’ve lived together for almost 2 years and the first time I ever actually bought any was about a month ago. [...]

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Reason 7,124,678,655 why I love Brian

Posted in Brian, Brian as Dad, Emma, Family, Grace in small things, Home, Life, Love, Parenting, Perfection, life is good, tagged on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I tell Emma it’s time to go, and she says “I can’t because I need to snuggle Daddy for just a couple more minutes!” and runs and jumps on the bed (he has a 10 AM class this morning, so is sleeping in late) and cuddles up to him.  The look of contentment on her [...]

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Dear Emma

Posted in Anger, Brian as Dad, Divorce Sucks, Emma, Family, Grace in small things, Home, Life, Love, Parenting on January 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Ever since I knew I was pregnant with you- which would be approximately 6 years ago around about this time, my entire world has revolved around you.  Protecting you, loving you.  I’ve loved you since the first thought of you crossed my mind. You are by far the most perfect thing I’ve ever done. You [...]

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Easter and a cake and a whole lotta other shit rolled into one.

Posted in Brian, Brian as Dad, Emma, Family, Food, Home, Life, Random, The evil side of Ariel on April 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »

So I was feeling domestic.So I baked a cake. Wanna see a picture? Its a carrot cake and it was pretty good. It had pineapple and coconut in it.The link I got it from is HERE. Anyway… I think I need a better camera. Also? It would have been really pretty if I’d bothered to [...]

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A conversation

Posted in Brian as Dad on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Brian: “I’ve been eaten by a nargle before, it wasn’t pleasant.”Emma: “Well stay away from them!” – none of us know what nargles are but Luna Lovegood worries about them and so do we.

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Emotional me

Posted in Brian, Brian as Dad, Life, Love, Perfection, life is good on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

So I can cry at the drop of a hat.Weddings, births, deaths, songs on the radio- hell, even commercials make me cry! So I’m doing payroll for a company and in it is a note from a girl- written on the paper she has her social security card copied on.It reads : “Boss” I got [...]

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unconventional methods of fatherhood

Posted in Brian as Dad on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Brian: “Do you know why boys get so tall?”Emma shakes her head no.Brian: ” So they can headbutt giraffes!”

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