Month: February 2010

  • A long story about my awesome husband is.

    Background: I actually wrote the first half of this post in October. I was waiting to get the photos to go along with it. Then Trent got anxious about patient privacy and asked me not to post it. I had to wait 6 months, but last night I was able to ask the patient and […]

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  • Adoption Decision part 2

    Thanks everyone for the congrats on my last post about our decision to apply for international adoption. And despite all the positive things said, I know that there are a wide range of opinions about adoption in general, inter-racial adoption especially and any and every detail related to this process. Not that I’m asking for […]

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  • Seriously big news.

    Original post date: February 23, 2010 I’ve realized (more than ever) in the last month or so that I am not a very private person. We’ve had some major things going on in our family, and I’ve wanted to shout it out! I wanted to get feedback. Mostly, I wanted to WRITE! So I got […]

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  • Only myself to blame.

    Have you ever heard of this movie: EXACTLY. Neither had I. And now it is very likely that this crudely animated, straight-to-DVD cheapo will be mine forever after I pay $19.95! YIPPEE! (If you’re not sensing the dripping sarcasm, you must be new here. Welcome!) * You see, I really want to blame this article […]

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  • Home

    I love this place. It’s teeny, the floor plan is totally bizarre, the paint is fading, the appliances are starting to fall apart, and one of the neighbors enjoys parking 13 run-down trucks in the street. But it is home. It is our first house and where we live our life. Where we got snowed […]

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  • Feeling cultured.

    I’m going to see Cosi Fan Tutte tonight! It’s a famous opera by Mozart, about 2 sisters, their finaces and lots of love, deception, costumes, fake suicides and eventually: forgiveness. I’m familiar with this opera (thanks to my college voice teacher, Dr. Cho and my almost-music-minor!) and excited to see it. My father-in-law has a […]

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  • My Happy Place

    I’m not a super messy person, but I’m not necessarily a very tidy person either. I’ve commented on this blog previously about my housekeeping skills–or lack thereof. Every day I spend some time tidying up, starting at the front door and working my way to the back of the house. And I never make it […]

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  • I can’t do it.

    UPDATE as of Wednesday, 02/03, 7pm: I don’t have all the details, but Troy Livesay posted on twitter that he saw Ronel and Ernest on the tarmac at the Port-au-Prince airport, getting ready to head to the US! Thanks for the letters, calls & prayers! I can’t leave a post about cupcakes (as adorable as […]

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