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Maya’s Surgery Date is Set 🙂 was last modified: May 27th, 2017 by Heather

Quick story. Today, after spending the afternoon at Jill’s house with the kids, Bode was given a little box of milk for the ride home. While we were on the Pike driving back, I heard Bode roll his window down, which was pretty unusual for him. He was playing with his favorite new cement mixer toy truck that the Messina’s had given him as a hand-me-down. I asked him why his window was down, and…

I am so hard to be friends with.  Really.  I feel bad for anyone who tries to socialize with me on any level. For starters, I’m particularly bad with communicating through technology: phone, email, text, or even Facebook messaging and Snapchat.  And, trust me, I’ve thought long and hard about why I’m like that so I can figure out how to fix it and get better, but I am just totally inconsistent. I’ll admit that…

I don’t know, you guys.  I feel so guilty writing this right now, but I can’t get it out of my brain. So, yesterday morning we woke up at our camp site next to a couple that was probably in their early 30’s.  I’m, honestly, not trying to publicly judge them or make it seem like I think we’re “better” than them.  I was just shocked at how different their lifestyle was from ours and…

You should’ve seen Ben yesterday.  He was in his element.  We finally got on the road to go camping, and I look over at him as we drive away from the house and he has an enormous grin on his face while he says, “It’s a beautiful day, drivin’ my truck with my family, listening to country music, goin’ camping.  LOVE this!” It is one of those things that I guess we’ve both dreamt about:…

While I give props to my father for teaching me the ropes on just how to develop your OCD as much as possible, it’s my grandmother, Lula, who really had it down.  We called her “Lula” because that’s the Filipino word for “grandmother”.  The word for grandfather is “Lulu”, but my grandfather wasn’t having that. She was a ninja OCD’er.  But, when I was young and never knew it was a “gift”, I just assumed…