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Sugar and Spice

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And everything nice, that's what this little girl is made of. The Munchkin, 6 lbs and 9 ozs of tongue sticking joy As it turns out (and let's face, we knew this), due dates means very little. So as we all mourned a longer pregnancy (big sis, birth mama, and mommy and daddy), our new little girl was busy making her own plans.  Last Wednesday evening, as it turns out, we at our last meal together as a family of three.  During that meal, we got THE CALL. The thing about adopting is that there is the strangest feeling of things taking forever and happening surprisingly fast all at once.  So we just looked at one another, going, "What?  We've been working on our second child for over a year, but now she's coming?" And was she ever coming!  Birth mama's labor started around 4pm and we had that baby in our arms before 9pm!  There are many, many words to say.  It was beautiful and hard and overwhelming in every possible way.  Most of all, it was a bless

Snowmageddon 2014

Text exchange between a friend and I: MONDAY Me: Please save me from the prison that is my home!  Need break from child! Him: Having school cancelled tomorrow really gave me a good understanding of Jack in the last half hour of  "The Shining". Me: Redrum TUESDAY Me: (much cursing) school is cancelled again tomorrow! Him: School cancelled.  Also, can't find razor blades. WEDNESDAY Him:  School cancelled Thursday.  This is the end.  Beautiful friend.  The end. Me: (mercilessly) Guess what sucker?  My kid has school tomorrow! THURSDAY I still haven't heard from said friend.  I can only assume he succumbed to his worst instincts after being trapped in a house with two young children for 5 days.  I am afraid to check. Just so you know, I had multiple text conversations with multiple friends in this same vein.  It's important to vent, folks! We've all been under weather advisories here in Indiana with a foot of snow and temps well below z