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Warning:  Use the bathroom before you watch this video!!  This is a good laugh on a foggy, rainy day.  I must thank my mom for sending it to me.
Enjoy!

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When Josiah was born it seemed like every doctor, specialist, or therapist kept telling us to raise him like our other children – like a “typical”child.  I have never given it much thought to how I raise him.  It really is not at the front of my mind that he has Down syndrome.  We really [...]

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I saw a cool recipe for a rainbow cake last week and decided to try it for our St. Patrick’s Day festivities.  (I must warn you that the author of this blog uses some language that I do not approve of but she does have some good recipes for watching your weight.)  The good news [...]

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I am jumping for joy!  I went to weather.com to see how much longer it is going to be raining.  Not only is the rain ending tomorrow but the lower 48 are having an unseasonable warm-up!  Music to me ears!  This means the boys are outside and out of my hair!!! This also means a [...]

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Today has been a LONG and EVENTFUL day.  Where do I begin? Oh right, it started when the alarm clock went off.

I have an atomic alarm clock that doesn’t seem to work right.  For some reason it set my clock back an hour last night from when I changed it ahead on Sat night.  So [...]

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I love Valentine’s Day.  I had so much fun spending mine with my four favorite boys.  Joshua planned our meal which consisted of Italian sausage, bow-tie pasta with Alfredo sauce and yeast rolls.  I surprised them with a big Valentine brownie.  I bought one big gift for the boys to share.  They got a ring [...]

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A few weeks ago we had a themed Friday Family Fun Night.  I told the boys several days in advance that we were going to have Snowman Night.  The event started off with a snowball fight.  Jyokeley got a cooler of shaved ice from the Island Oasis machine at Confluence (this would be one of [...]

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I am so thankful it is March 1st.  Before you say it, it is not because my birthday is in two days.  I am thankful because February was a hard month for me and IT IS OVER.  I didn’t have it in me to write a post.  Joshua hit a hard patch in pre-school for [...]

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