Shelly’s Journal

Don’t forget to get out there and VOTE.
I just returned from the polls with my entourage. Virginia prohibits voters from wearing buttons, clothing promoting their candidates inside the polls. Which to me, is silly. So we all dressed in red - and really stood out I might add - as we trooped [...]

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In previous years, I might have called a post on Halloween, a rant. I might have been fuming and mad and angry about the whole thing. But I’m not. I have made peace with the holiday and the role it plays in my family’s lives.
I have read a few things on the [...]

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How can a kid go from sleeping 15 hours a day (12 hours at night, 3 hour nap) to 8 hours a day (8 hours at night - getting up at 4 AM, and no nap) in 2 days? It makes no sense to me how my 2-year-old is still standing, or how I’m [...]

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And so begins another week filled with grocery shopping, laundry, cooking, building, destroying, reading, playing, laughing, tickling, hugging, kissing, snuggling, and all the other things that go on around here on a week to week basis.
It is good.

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I’ve officially become a NASCAR junkie. Yikes. I really enjoy the sport. I’ll probably detail my reasoning, but I’ve kicked football to the curb, and would rather spend my Sunday’s watching the boys race. It does help that my Bump is such a NASCAR fanatic. Today, he was Kyle Busch in [...]

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The other night, I was desperately running around trying to button things up before the boys went to sleep. Little E was following me around, and Bump was still in the tub. Suddenly, I stopped and listened with a smile on my face…
“…By the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight’s [...]

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Today I stopped off to visit one of the places I used to work. It’s been 7 years since I walked through the doors on a day to day basis, although I’ve been back many times to say “hi.” I keep in touch with a few people via email as well and we [...]

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My boys have both been late talkers - suddenly coming to life with vocabulary around their 2nd birthday. There’s something remarkable about this phenom….you really don’t know what they know.
Little E has been spilling words out over the past few weeks. I wanted to write a list of them all, but I quickly [...]

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My little E is at the top of the cuteness scale - a perfect 10. Always a smile on his face and a snuggle for his mommy, he charms the socks off of me. No wonder I’m barefoot all the time! Really, as he approaches his 2nd birthday, I can hardly keep [...]

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