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Five things that make me happy today: 8 more hours, 8 more patients until the weekend! Dealing with some extra stress in our little world – it sure has given my husband and I LOTS to talk about lately. Love that. My girls make me laugh all the time. Much needed laughter. Coffee with hazelnut [...]

Nearly every year for the past ten years that I’ve been at my office, we’ve had a dental hygiene student from the nearby university come to our office for their summer internship. We’ve had some wonderful future hygienists over the years, whom I am proud to call *colleagues* now and a few bad apples. I [...]

I was chatting with Shannon on IM the other night and she was having trouble with a particular letter on her keYboard not showing up as she tYped. It was sticking and just would not appear. We were laughing about all the words she would not be able to write correctlY without this particular letter. [...]

Eleven years ago today, at 5:16am, my sweet baby girl entered the world. She arrived by c-section, after an unusually long time of stress and strain in the birthing canal… she was just such a beauty. With a perfect little kidney bean-shaped head (which rounded out quickly) and a *peaches and cream* complexion! She was [...]

Gosh… they had her nickname up all over the place! (More Texas pics coming this week… they’ll be in a private post. The same password from before… so just email me if you need it!)

Ringggggg….. Ringggggg….. “Hello?”  I say as I answer the phone. “Hey honey* he says. “Hi! What are you doing?” surprised to have my future hubby calling me in the middle of the day. We talked on the phone every day during our long-distance relationship, but usually close to bedtime. Rarely ever in the middle of [...]

Have you ever had the odd nagging feeling that you forgot something? Running through the mental checklist of…. is the iron off? is the coffee pot off? did I feed the dogs? did I respond to that very important email as I’d planned or did I just dream I responded??? am I late on some [...]

(Image credit: RPLS) To travel the road less traveled, does that make you stand apart from the crowd? To travel the road less traveled, does that make you any better or any lesser than others? To travel the road less traveled, does that entitle you to a sense of self to which others are not [...]

Although, the following picture might very well qualify us for the “You might be a redneck if….” jokes – it sure was fun to listen to the gales of laughter as the oscillating sprinklers hit my girls on each passing! Happy 4th of July!

Yesterday was a heavy post for me…. and definitely thanks for your comments. I am still mulling it all over, hopefully to re-address it again later. Tomorrow we celebrate independence of our nation – which means a family reunion in my world! My MIL picks the traditionally hottest weekend of the year to invite EVERYONE [...]