Raising twins and staying sober 24 hours at a time.
As we got out of our car last weekend to go to a new tumbling class (which both kids refused to do - but that's another story), the woman in the car in front of us came over and said, "I'm random acts of kindness-ing you" and handed me a parking meter stub to put …
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I swear to god the punches just keep on coming. If it's something good and decent and kind, it will be ripped away right now. It feels like every good move or victory for empathy and compassion and inclusion has been burned to the ground, or will be soon and I am just holding my …
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The water seeped through the kitchen floor from the refrigerator water line to the ceiling of the basement and then flooded the floor. So the crews came in and did the same thing they did two years ago when we flooded. That time it was from the outside, and this time it came from INSIDE …
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