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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Thanksgiving at the ranch

We spent this past weekend at Otey’s parents house celebrating an early Thanksgiving.  We will be in Indiana on Thursday, so it was good to spend a couple of days hanging out with his family in southern Missouri… eating… and eating… and eating.  Did I mention we did a lot of eating?  Well, the grown-ups...

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Comments and Kim & Joe

Oh my gosh I am so frustrated with the “comment” system on my blog.  When I turn up the security, all of my regular blog readers have heck commenting. When I turn the security down, I have to sort through 30 spam comments a day.  Now… if i were in the market for cheap meds,...

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Finally.

THIS image has been in my head for months… maybe a year.  Every time I drive past this “dot” on the side of one of the downtown buildings in Ottumwa I think “the next time I have a pitchable (is that a word?) age baby and a fun Dad I’m going to THAT dot”.
And you...

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“What’s in a name?”

I just titled a blog post with a Shakespeare quote.  Does that make up for the bad grammar, cruddy punctuation, and REALLY bad spelling I am about to use multiple times in this post?  Anyway…
I’m not exactly sure how I came up with the name Cooper.  I just liked it.  We had it narrowed down...

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Baby 3.0 needs a flippin’ name.

I am absolutly positively NOT waiting until the last minute to name this baby.  Cooper was named four months before we had him.  Grady was named 14 hours AFTER we had him.  I am a planner.  I need a plan.  I am 11 weeks from my due date and this baby needs a name and...

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3 years

It has been over TWO months since my last blog post.
HOLY.
COW.
During my hiatus, my blog turned three years old (happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear (neglected, sad, tired, lonely, old) blog, happy birthday to you).  I don’t know why I haven’t blogged the past couple of months.  All I can...

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