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About Shoes

I am an elementary school teacher, a former microbiologist, a mom to a herd of two boys, and a grilled cheese sandwich and beer connoisseur.

Another Wonderful Year

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Shoes

This will be his last year in the single digits.  Today Cody, my first born son, turns nine.  As my long time readers know, Cody was born premature – a 26 weeker.  He weighed 2 pounds 1.5 ounces.  I consider … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Desert Stroll and Tic Tac Toe

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Shoes

We are members at the Desert Botanical Gardens, a fabulous place that I highly recommend you visit if you ever find yourself in Phoenix.  This morning after lounging over coffee and lingonberry oven pancake, we headed out to the gardens. … Continue reading →

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Walking and Talking

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Shoes

The boys accompanied Haley and I on our morning walk today.  The weather was perfect, the cool before the heat of the day.  Walking with the boys, one must be prepared for all types of conversation topics and they rarely … Continue reading →

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At Least I Have More Teeth

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Shoes

Today is my birthday. Today I also stayed home from work so as to take Cody into the hospital for his outpatient Botox procedure (I am too tired (and not sure I could adequately explain it anyway) to go into … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – What Would you do if…

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Shoes

This is not your typical Easter Sunday blog post.  In fact, it is very loosely based upon the topic of Easter, and even saying that is quite a stretch. Over the years, I have found it necessary to give guidance … Continue reading →

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Heroes

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Shoes

Tuesday’s writing assignment in my second grade classroom was to write about someone the students considered to be a hero in their lives – someone who has been important to them, has inspired them.  We brainstormed ideas of who this … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Questions for our Realtor

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Shoes

Today we looked at some houses with our realtor.  There is one house in particular that we are interested in and Husband and I spent a lot of time talking about it after we came back to our apartment. Time … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Stairs and Matchbox Cars

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Shoes

Slinky’s got nothing on this.

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Skating Backwards

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Shoes

Last weekend we attended a birthday party for a girl in Cody’s third grade class.  Cody has spoken of this girl, who I shall refer to as Bea, for quite some time.  They play together at recess and spend time … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – If you Give them Suction Cup Toothbrushes…

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Shoes

expect some shenanigans during tooth brushing time.

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