A Letter To My Boys

Dear Ben and Blake, I was watching you play tonight at YaYa and PaPa's house when I was there to pick you up after work and I couldn't help  it...all I could do was stare at you.  You both bounced from one thing to the next with such purpose and at the same time with no care in the world.  You…

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My Semi-Shallow Thankful List

It is almost Thanksgiving.  Which means the return of the Piekarz Family Thankful Turkey...or, as Ben would translate, the thank you chicken we pray to.  We have all ended (most) days this month by writing down what we are thankful for on a paper feather and are working our way towards a whole turkey…

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Imperfect Parent

I am not the parent I thought I would be back before I had kids. Let's face it...I am not that parent tonight that I thought I would be this morning at 5:30 when nobody was awake yet.  Today my plan was simple...wake up, don't lose my cool, go to bed. That plan was completely shot by 6:15 a.m…

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1624 Lakeside Drive

It's a funny thing...moving, that is. It's this whirlwind of a process that is  months  in the making and then in a matter of a day or two you have relocated everything you own into a million piles and boxes in a new place that you are now supposed to call home. It's exciting and scary an…

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One. More. Week.

We are moving one week from today.  Or, as Ben would say, we are moving in 7 sleeps.  I have spent the better part of the last month packing, painting, having a hard time breathing due to the completely overwhelming amount of clutter, arguing with whoever is here about this house being a mess, browsi…

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What Happens When Mommy Leaves For Work...

Ah, summer.  The days of bike rides and trips to the park, of water gun fights and playing the iPad outside instead of on the couch. The days of the house smelling like an oddly enjoyable combination of outside, sunscreen and smelly shoes, of a steady pile of beach towels and grass stained clothes o…

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This week sucks. This blog does not.

This week sucks.  And I feel bad for myself.  And I have been spending my fair share of time doing so. And then, when I'm in the midst of feeling bad for myself, I hear this seriously annoying voice in my head saying "There are people with far less than you who are having a better day than yo…

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Yogurt Drool & Crazy Big Huge Slides

So I'm sitting at dinner tonight and I've got one little guy being ridiculously well behaved (I'll pretend that this wasn't because he was trying to make up for the 15 year old attitude crammed in a 4 year old body that he was tossing around today) and I've got another little gu…

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"Don't bite your brother's face" ... And other things I never thought I would say

It was FINALLY nice enough to be outside for an extended period of time earlier this week, so we took a little walk to Starbucks for coffee and treats. We were happily standing in line when Ben leaned down close to Blake, just trying to be a goof and make him laugh. Within  a matter of seconds, Blak…

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