totally selfish and wishful post

One of the non-adoption blogs that I read is having a 12 days of Christmas giveaway.  You can enter all 12 giveaways this Friday at Design Mom.
If you blog about it and link to her site, you earn an entry for a 13th giveaway.  So…
Go check it out on Friday!  You know you want [...]

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lucky girl

My volunteers have been so amazingly generous to Sadie.  One group of volunteers threw me a shower back in January and I was completely overwhelmed by their generosity.  But it didn’t end there.  While I was on leave and since I returned, many volunteers have brought me gifts for Sadie.  She’s received some great toys, [...]

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cute pics

This girl LOVES ketchup

Sadie’s first pair of jeans
 
Please note the turkey drumsticks in her back pockets!
 
My little pink bear

Dining out with mama

Sadie’s first footie pjs

Argh…they won’t come off!

Oh well.
 
 

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sadie’s first thanksgiving

Sadie’s first Thanksgiving was nice but exhausting.  It was just the four of us: me, Sadie, grandma and grandpa.  Sadie looked adorable in her dress from Boden.

I pretty much spent the entire time chasing Sadie and saying no.  She was quite the rascal in my parents’ unbabyproofed house.  Oy!  She opened every cabinet in [...]

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meeting grandmama

The day after my big work event, I got to take the day off since I put in tons of overtime working on speeches, the program, etc.  So, I decided to finally take Sadie to meet my grandma, her great grandma.  We had planned to go down a couple times before but had to cancel [...]

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flicker, flicker, flicker!

Handy Manny got a new tool today!  Flicker.  We love this show.  I have to admit, I find myself watching even when Sadie isn’t paying attention.  Flicker is adorable.  He is a flashlight who only speaks Spanish and he has the cutest voice!  They have new Flicker episodes all week.  Yippee!

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mama’s day out

My mom and I used to have season tickets to the Ahmanson.  I LOVE musical theatre so we always had a great time.  Well, this last season we weren’t really thrilled with the shows that were coming so we gave up our season tickets.  I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed going to the theatre [...]

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