Category: The Samantha Years
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Packing it away
As I’m writing this evening, my husband is watching a man get ‘tazed’ on the SciFi channel. 19 muscle pulses per second when you get tazed…who knew. Who knew that this would be considered entertainment. Here’s the big news for this evening. We are weaning Samantha off her Topamax which is always tough and sleep…
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I’m now on Facebook!
What a kick! I joined an hour ago and met up with six friends. If you haven’t done it, I highly recommend it….great way to dabble a little time. My friend Ginger sent me a slinky through Facebook…who knew. With the baby asleep in her room (cross your fingers) the hubbie asleep on the couch…
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What will be great about 2008?
Happy Holidays! Happy New Year! As I’m writing, I have one eye on the Iowa caucus; a year of much needed change. A friend of mine calls me the ‘the most liberal friend she knows’ so I’m sure you can all guess my views. I feel energized by the changes afoot and I’m trying to…
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Thursday Thoughts
So, I took the seizure counter down. Samantha had two today but that’s not really why I took it down….it’s kind of like counting the runny-nose-free days a kiddo has. Sooner or later that nose will run, so hey, why put that pressure on the sinuses? Samantha continues to do well, get stronger and we’re…
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2, 4, 6, 8 Everybody Advocate!
I’m a sucker for a cause; always have been. In high school a group of us piled into my rusty station wagon with the Greenpeace bumper sticker. We headed down to the local Burger King to protest their use of Icelandic cod. Iceland commercially hunted Minke whales….we had our cause. “Hold the pickles! Hold the…
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