Monthly Archives: April 2004

Support the UT Friends of Midwives!!!

We are doing a fundraiser to raise money for a bill we are trying to pass. The bill would allow for laymidwives to voluntarily become licensed to carry medicines and oxygen at births. Currently midwifery in UT is illegal and this would open the doors for homebirthing here! Finally we’d be able to come out...

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AWESOME NEWS!

Awesome news on the adoption blog today!!! Check it out!!!! :skip

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Poetry

For my class:

A sonnet on my adoption blog

Jean Valjean- Haiku

Convict Jean Valjean
dark, strong, surly, heart of stone
delivers kindness.

and

The cat and the kazoo- limerick

There once was a cat named Baloo
who believed he could play the kazoo

he puffed and he preened

and he licked himself clean

but alas that was all he...

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Inspired reading continued

Well, the little tyke has completed book three of the Spiderwick Chronicles and today was seen reading “The Mouse and the Motorcycle” hee hee hee… And we did start “Around the World in Eighty Days”. That’s a tough book! We’ve decided to use it as a read-aloud, since I don’t understand half of the words....

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Whew what a weekend!

We just got back from a fun if exhausting trip to the sand dunes. I had hoped to finish “Les Miserables” completely but I only made it to page 350(there are 1400 pages:yikes)

Last night I woke up in the wee hours terribly sick and spent about an hour in the tiny cubicle bathroom of our...

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A rant!

Recently a post on a message board I frequent has made me :yikes!

The moderator has locked the thread and even if she hadn’t I would have taken it to my blog. As this is my personal space and I can say what I feel here.

The basic gist of the comment was that the poster feels...

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Beautiful tribute to our soldiers

We Support You!

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My baby the bully

Oh my goodness. My baby is becoming quite the little bully. He doesn’t hit me, but he does hit the older boys when he’s mad, or sometimes just to be funny and they hate it! Today he pushed his best friend, Alena, down (she’s 5 mos older but 10 lbs lighter than he is) and...

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Reading Inspiration..

OK, so the boys have been having loads of fun the last two months, but not much reading has been going on. I decided I want to inspire Xander to read some fluff books, just for the sake of reading at all! So I grabbed book one of the Spiderwick Chronicles and commensed reading. Not...

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My second essay

I posted my second essay for the writing class in my Adoption Blog because it’s an essay on International adoption. Take a look! :type

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