Meme me.

I decided to steal a meme from Chilihead. You can read her answers here.
1. If you had to choose one vice in exclusion of all others, what would it be?
Coffee addiction. I have had three pregnancies in four years, with months of breastfeeding, and I miss my old coffee addiction. It was comforting, [...]

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Show-and-Tell Tuesday

Pieces started a new regular feature a few weeks ago, and I keep meaning to contribute to it, but usually forget. The idea is to post once a week about some project you completed or finally got started.
I am a lousy cake decorator, but JellyBean, who adores Beatrix Potter, wanted a hedgehog cake for [...]

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Calling Dr. Jung

Last night I dreamt we were still living in our old apartment, and had only one child. I was pregnant, just like I am now, and had decided to take JellyBean to our old church for Bible School. In the dream we were still driving our pre-parenthood Geo Metro, a tiny tin-can of [...]

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Breaking for Brakes

I hope you will all forgive the belatedness of my last two Days of Christmas posts. I simply could not keep up the pace. You can read them now, if you are so inclined, by scrolling down, or by clicking Eleventh Day or Twelfth Day.
I was full of good intentions to get them [...]

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Twelfth Day of Christmas: The Wise Men

God calls people I don’t expect and in ways I don’t approve of. And if that makes me sound like a proud old hypocrite, it is meant to.
Perhaps the most mysterious characters in the nativity story are the Wise Men, also called the Magi or the Three Kings. They were astronomers before astrology [...]

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