dee-dee-dee-deeeeeee…. Fumble around for the nearly-impossible-to-find button. Silence the offense. Sit up, and think very hard about laying back down. Remember I have 45 minutes of reading to do before the kids wake up and remember how they are waking up earlier and earlier every day. Notice actual daylight outside, rejoice that it’s late…

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I’m joining in The Gypsy Mama’s Five-Minute Friday writing prompt this week, in which we “write in shades of real and brave and unscripted… Just write and not worry if it’s just right or not.” Today’s prompt is “When Seasons Change.” *** We sat, day after day, in the unchanging fluorescent light, the antiseptic hospital…

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Today’s Five Minute Friday writing prompt is “deep breath.” Want to join in? Visit The Gypsy Mama for details and link up! Deep Breath photo © 2010 Exchanges Photos | more info (via: Wylio) I sit in the queue, in the merciful shade. The desert sun evaporated my swimsuit within minutes after our warm-up. The…

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Today’s Five Minute Friday writing prompt is “Motherhood Should Come With…” Five minutes, no editing… here goes!   I need a clone. I’ve needed one since I brought our first baby out of my body and discovered that babies eat every 2 hours sometimes, and I can’t just wake up and feed a baby every…

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A couple of weeks ago, I noticed many of the people I follow on Twitter talking about something called five-minute Friday. I discovered that Lisa-Jo, or The Gypsy Mama, hosts a writing theme every Friday in which you write for 5 minutes flat just for the love of the written word — no editing or…

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Sunshine in March is watery and thin but oh so warm after weeks of the kind of gray cold that burrows into the cracks like the dirt between the planks of my oak floor. My seatbelt tucked low under my belly, baby dancing the “mommy drank her coffee today” boogie, we waved goodbye to our…

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