Lady in a Small Town

So much for posting every day in September.

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Rain ruined our county fair plans. Six-Word Saturday at Show My Face.

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I was in my literacy room waiting for my third graders. The same room I teach in now. My para walked in from her break. “You haven’t left the room, have you?” she asked. “No.” I said. “Then you don’t know.” she said, quietly. “Know what?” “I will tell you after.” “No, please tell me.” [...]

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I am kicking off my renewed interested in blogging.  I know I am not the most interesting writer, but I am going to try. When I was in high school a friend gave me a book called 14,000 Things to be Happy About.  I started a list of my happy things in 1993.  When I [...]

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How long were your labors? I started having irregular contractions Friday morning.  Around 11:30 that night they started to become more regular and harder.  I started pushing around 9 am and delivered at 11:40 am.  So I was going for about 24 hours, but the hard part was really 12 hours. How did you know [...]

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On the way home from Gramma’s we stopped at Babies R Us and Target.  I had never been in a Babies R Us.  Wow.  I could totally go broke if there was one closer. Tumblebug now has: Fisher Price Open Top Take-Along Swing (gift) in Woodland Friends Baby Einstein Baby Neptune Ocean Adventure Gym when [...]

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Labor Movement: Thanks for the weekend!

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Tonight we are heading to NY to spend time with my mother-in-law, her mom and her brother’s family.  We are going to the Capital District Scottish games. This will mark my 10th year going to the Scottish Games with my husband’s family.  The games are okay.  We get there in plenty of time for the [...]

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