my mother once told me i needed to do whatever made me happy, even it meant doing things that didn’t seem to be easy (ok, so she said that more than once - shut up).
HAPPY –adjective
1. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing
2. characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy
so, in [...]
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On this night, we remember the fifth child. This is a child of the Shoah (Holocaust), who did not survive to ask.
Therefore, we ask for that child: Why? We are like the simple child. We have no answer. We can only follow the footsteps of Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah, who could not bring himself to [...]
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i had this nice little post about easter and spring and candy and bunnies all typed up and then *poof* it gets all unformated and screws up my entire blog. so, this it what you are getting instead…
HAPPY EASTER!
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happy new year!
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i’m sick. so sick. and chase is sick. so sick. we’ve been sick for over 10 days now. how does that happen? i’m not quite sure what it is. it’s snotty & sticky and oozey & gooey. matt thinks we just have bad colds. i think [...]
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this. this is my sadness…
sunday (12/16), would have been my mom’s 58th birthday. robbed from her life, cheated from so many memories to come. i took a trip to nordstrom to calm myself, but found myself in tears on the way. they come so easy. so unexpectedly. so viciously.
this. [...]
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halloween. chase’s first trick or treat halloween. it was awesome.
among other super busy things, i brought chase to see his auntie hilma at work. there, he tricked and treated for yummy fruit snacks and apple juice. then we stopped at my office, where miss tricia pushed lil monkey chase around in a chair. he loved [...]
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frisch’s big boy…
chase is now 33.5″ and 26# 2oz - still underweight, but not so bad
he is not required to eat meat as long as his bean obsession grows
he is also not required to brush his teeth… until he is 3 (ewwwwwww)
we will be implementing fish oil into his diet, though he is currently in [...]
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it’s easter sunday & we’re packed full of ham (not chase) and mac/cheese (chase). we had a swell time visiting with gramps & grammy, along with some other family we almost never see. chase had some play time with chloe & it has now officially been determined…
chase is NOT a sharer
in fact, if you think [...]
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last night, we attended chase’s first passover dinner at bubbie’s house. i say “passover dinner” b/c i think chase may have been alive last passover, but we didn’t have a chance to celebrate it - too much crying & sleeping (chase, not me).
chase had a grand time - meeting him great uncle jimmy & great [...]
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