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  • coraline - music

    Toddler Tunes 2.0

    October 22, 2014 - By Pattie

    Song Lyric of the Day: You know your love (your love keeps lifting me) / Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me) / Higher (lifting me) / Higher and higher (higher) Jackie Wilson / “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher“ A while back I wrote about how I…

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  • coraline - photoblogging - photography

    Photoblogging: Slinky

    October 21, 2014 - By Pattie

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  • scene from a marriage

    Scene From a Marriage #37,453

    October 21, 2014 - By Pattie

    “What are you going to do if she goes to college out of state?” “We can move to be closer to her. You know, in case she needs to come home to eat, do laundry, hang out.” “So you’re going to stalk her.” “If moving just to stay close to…

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  • blogging - personal

    Is This Thing Still On?

    October 20, 2014 - By Pattie

    Song Lyric of the Day: I guess I can’t believe you really came / And that we’re sitting on this pier / See, I’m smiling / That means I’m happy that you’re here Sherie René Scott / “See I’m Smiling“ I haven’t blogged in months. I haven’t even read blogs in…

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  • coraline - photoblogging - photography

    Photoblogging: Profile

    May 16, 2014 - By Pattie

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  • personal - travel

    The Year of Living Dangerously … Close to Home

    May 15, 2014 - By Pattie

    Song Lyric of the Day: Come away with me / Come, let’s go away to be / On a new adventure for two / We can fly across the ocean / Or take a train together / I don’t care as long as it’s beside you Tim McMorris / “You’ve…

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  • humor - marriage - scene from a marriage

    Scene From a Marriage # 34,774

    May 14, 2014 - By Pattie

    After driving out of our neighborhood on the way to day care: “Oh my God! I forgot my phone!” “Really? You never forget that.” “It’s OK. I can go home at lunchtime to get it.” A few blocks from day care: “Oh my God! I left my work laptop at…

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  • coraline - personal - photography

    Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

    May 13, 2014 - By Pattie

    Song Lyric of the Day: Hold me closer tiny dancer / Count the headlights on the highway / Lay me down in sheets of linen / You had a busy day today Elton John / “Tiny Dancer“ A couple of months ago Rich and I enrolled Coraline in her first ballet class. Technically,…

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  • being a mom - coraline - personal - photoblogging - photography

    Photoblogging: Mother’s Day 2014

    May 12, 2014 - By Pattie

    Yesterday I enjoyed a low-key Mother’s Day, my fourth as Coraline’s lucky mom. We started the day with brunch — Coraline’s favorite meal — at The Egg & I, our first visit and one of the few places with a less than two-hour wait. Then we came home, where Rich…

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  • coraline - personal

    From the Heart

    May 9, 2014 - By Pattie

    Coraline made this for me at day care. She told the teachers what she wanted to tell me, and they wrote it on this little butterfly made from tracing her hands. It’s the most perfect Mother’s Day present I could have hoped for. Artwork like this makes day care worth…

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