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When I was a kid the birds and the bees talk we got was nothing compared to how the Swedes teach their children. This is quite the board book, I wish I owned it. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t a cartoon depicting crowning in the book my parents used.http://jacob.webdice.net/makebaby.jpg Be sure to click on the [...]

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I just love my husband. Believe me there are times when I want to pinch off his head, but lately he has been wonderful. A box from Amazon arrived today and Tadd had ordered the following books: Twinspiration; Twins Triplets & Quads: Guidelines for a healthy multiple pregnancy and Double Duty: A parents guide to [...]

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When I first got out of nursing school I vowed to ditch the student uniform that I loathed ASAP. So I got the green polyester zip up scrub tops I owned (how they charged $50 apiece for these things I will never know) and went BACK to school to bequeath them to a newer student. [...]

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I know better than to get wrapped up in those medical websites, but I still find myself there. I did stop myself from looking at sonogram gallery of congenital defects, I knew that would come back to haunt me. And even though I know better I got all freaked out about vanishing twin syndrome (see [...]

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Last night everyone went to a fish fry for dinner. Evidently perch is a big deal and you can only get it in the Great Lakes State. I decided to skip going out to dinner for a number of reasons:

It would be a 30-40 minute drive each way
It was a fish fry and I HATE [...]

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Tadd and I actually went somewhere other than Bad Axe while in the Mitten State. For 3 days we went off on our own for a whirlwind adventure that included Mackinac Island (pronounced mac-ah-gnaw), Traverse City and a magical place that Tadd has talked so much about. That would be the U.P., and for those [...]

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It was a difficult covert op to Michigan. I give kudos to my husband for his ingenious planning and airplane ticket buying skills. Since I begin work on July 16th we decided to spend my last week of unemployment in Michigan. Nothing would be better than if we were to fly out to Michigan [...]

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We overnighted a box to my my step-dad Lee and his wife Deb the day before leaving for MI. Shortly after getting to my mom’s place, I called my dad to see if he had received the mail yet and found out that he was working today. I got a call back about [...]

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We decided to tell my dad (Jimbo) on Friday evening right before flying to Michigan. This is because we weren’t sure that he could keep a secret so that my mom could have her surprise as he tends to tell all of his friends EVERYTHING. I have no idea how he didn’t get [...]

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Today was D & A’s big 4th of July party. We like to think of them as our back-up family. Whereas most of our family is far away, they are local and I know that we can always count on them. No plans for Thanksgiving? Come to our house! Christmas Eve [...]

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