Category Archives: Little Feet

Diarrhea and Diabetes

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Shoes

It started with an arm fart.  You know the noise.  The one that is produced when lips blow onto the skin of the arm close to or on the crook of the elbow. It was a juicy one.  Produced by … Continue reading →

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Letting Go

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Shoes

I was fully planning on being one of those parents, the ones who read parenting books in a (what I now know is futile) attempt to arm themselves with answers, to better understand the role of a parent.  Husband and … Continue reading →

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Need some Milk to go with that Bowl of Red Blood Cells?

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Shoes

Breakfast conversation: It started with bran and our ignorance on the subject. Lately Cody’s favorite breakfast cereal is All-Bran.  I know.  It is a strange cereal to be declared anyone’s favorite cereal, much less a ten year olds.  I think … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – 10

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Shoes

Yesterday Cody turned ten. The big one zero. The full two hands. Double digits. Wow. Every year, I go back and reread the first post I wrote about his birthday and every year it gives me chills.  Those of you … Continue reading →

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Smooth Talkin’ Seven Year Old

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Shoes

I am not one to splurge, especially on myself.  But today, I did.  It wasn’t much of a splurge as far as splurges go, but it made me very happy and it was inexpensive.  It was a bracelet, four stretchy … Continue reading →

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Duck (s)! and Green Hats

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Shoes

When we moved into our house last year, the swimming pool came complete with three ducks, two of which were real and one was of the plastic top, floating chlorine tablet holder variety.  After a week or so, the real … Continue reading →

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Those People

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Shoes

Today we were those people. You know the ones. The people who have pool noodle battles in the middle of the Costco parking lot. Our last summer pool noodles, the cheap Home Depot ones, had long ago gone the way … Continue reading →

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In One Eye Blink

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Shoes

Carter had great plans for his dreams last night. In his dreams, he was going to fight and defeat Kylo Ren, a character from the new Star Wars movie we saw yesterday. Upon awaking this morning he stumbled into Husband’s … Continue reading →

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An Early Christmas (Photographically Represented Using Carter’s Stuffed Owls, Barney and Barney Jr.)

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Shoes

Last weekend we drove to Tucson to celebrate an early Christmas with family.  Cody and Carter’s cousins are heading out of town for the actual event, so we convened at my mother-in-law’s house for dinner and presents. Carter, of course, … Continue reading →

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WE’RE BOTH NAKED IN HERE!!

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Shoes

It was after dinner.  Cody was taking a shower and Carter was suppose to be picking out a nice Christmas card – from my ever-growing collection of leftover Christmas cards from years past –for his teacher. I could not find … Continue reading →

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