Welcome November ICLWers & NaBloPoMoers!

November 21, 2011

If you are visiting my blog for the first time, thank you for stopping by! If you have been here before, thank you for returning! I have been blogging here at Four of a Kind (formerly Three of a Kind Working on a Full House…) for 4 1/2 years now. My family and I dealt […]

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Disney World (Then and Now)

November 20, 2011

THEN — My dad, my sister, me and my mom in front of Spaceship Earth at Epcot (July 1985): NOW — Me, Abby, Bob and Sean in front of Spaceship Earth at Epcot (November 2011): 26 years after I first visited Disney World with my parents and sister I got to return there to experience […]

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My Happy Place

November 19, 2011

Today I had one of those days, the kind where you don’t know whether to laugh or cry at times and to be honest I did some of both. When this happens there are a variety of ways that I use to process my experience and to cope. As evidence here on my blog, one […]

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Lulls and Funks

November 18, 2011

It is Day 18 of  NaBloPoMo and I have hit some kind of lull or funk. Its not that I don’t have enough ideas for what to write about here, its that I am just not *feeling it.* I have a list of topics that I am looking forward to exploring, but today I do not […]

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The Letter of the Day is "L"

November 17, 2011

Lately Abby has gotten very verbal and, for two year-old, she speaks very well. However, she struggles to pronounce her “Ls” just right. When she uses the letter “L” in a word, if often comes out sounding more like an “LY” sound. So when our little girl says words like: “umbrella” the color “blue” or […]

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A Beautiful Cartoon

November 16, 2011

Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly’s ABC News Special Interview with Diane Sawyer aired on Monday night. I haven’t seen the whole thing, but have caught clips of their moving interchange about Gabby’s “journey towards recovery” in various headline news stories. As so often is the case with national news stories, such as this […]

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