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Jude will never admit to being tired.  But, if he asks to snuggle with me, it’s a dead give away.  Last night he told me, “We’re not going to go to bed, since it’s only 10:29 [p.m.], we’re just going to snuggle.”  Sure enough, I snuggled him right to sleep.

“I like lemons because they make the best lemonade.”

I grabbed a sheet of paper from a legal pad that I hadn’t used for 5 months.  I found a quote I had scribbled down that my mom said that had really got me laughing.  She told me several months ago when she heard I had been using socks only on my treadmill desk for …

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“I can’t find my butters! [meaning brothers]”  (I just love it when the boys get along like best friends.)

Jude wrote a list of what he did this week: BuilD some of my sNowfoart. StAy HoMe. PlAy. Go to Kraty.

With a husband and kids who do not pick up after themselves, I feel like I spend half my life cleaning.  I figured that maybe I could make myself feel better about our disasterous house if I watched an episode of Hoarding: Buried Alive.  Nope.  Didn’t work.  In fact, it had the opposite of the …

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After I brought Jude and Levi to Petco for a free trip to the zoo, Jude wrote a wish list that he appropriately named “Judes WiSH LiSt”: A ginney PiG A parret A LizarD Some FiSH.  11 TO 20 Some turtles 1 to 2

This weekend while I was putting away baskets of laundry, the boys decided to try out a sport they believe they invented — sliding down the stairs in a laundry basket into a pile of pillows.  I can hardly stand to watch, but saw enough to immediately insist that they put on bike helmets or …

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“Mom, why do you sound so stressed out?”  (What a kid!  Let’s face it, I’m always stressed out, but it’s pretty impressive that he’s able to call me on it.)

Andy and I got married.  We have 3 beautiful boys to show for it.  So thankful for the joy they bring me everyday.