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My friend Kathryn and I share a birthday - which is pretty cool!  In honour of our day Finley and I hosted Kathryn; her daughters, Sora age four, Mia age two and her lovely mother Diana for Birthday Tea.  Table Scape Hosting tea parties is my new little obsession.  I've enjoyed tea at some of the major hotels like The Empress in Victoria BC, The Chateau Laurier in Ottawa ON and The

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So I clearly have been delinquent in posting on my blog.  I've been all wrapped up in keeping a house clean and ready for the countless walk throughs we've been having since slashing the price by 100 grand. That's right. We've been caught up in the United States Housing crisis.  We purchased our gorgeous Georgian Colonial in the historic district of what is fast becoming a failing community, in

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In the whole world there are no greater relationships than those you can have with an Aunt.  I have two very special Aunts.  I've always known and loved them of course, but, our relationships solidified after the passing of my mother.  I think we all provided a link to my mom for one other in a way.  We've developed relationships of our own outside of my mother over the years. We all helped each

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My dad visited recently.  Nothing can quite describe watching my dad with my little girl. Finley had a cautious curiosity about him which lasted only hours and then they were quite taken with one another. Here they are sharing ginger cookies... the picture says it all! Finley & Grandpa at I Can't Believe It's A Book Store in Washington NC

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This Thanksgiving I'm very thankful for my little family.   They are my heart and my sunshine.  Where ever we are together is HOME. Photo Courtesy: Karoline Ouimet 

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There was a really nice mention of MOI in this recent article about the NEW yoga studio in my little NC town where I'm very pleased to be a member of the faculty. Getting down with yoga Published 12:37am Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Email    Comments Editor’s note: BizLine is a weekly feature highlighting local businesses serving Washington and Beaufort County. This week’s BizLine

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Mother Ship Yoga and Wellness Presents: Interdisciplinary Yoga & Journaling Saturday November 19, 2011 Join us in PERTH Ontario for a FULL DAY of Delicious Personal Inquiries exploring the self through mind, body and spirit. Hosted By:  Michelle Shipley RYT 200hr Yoga Alliance Member Where?Perth Family Health Center 33 Lewis Street Perth, Ontario, K7H

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Well, I'm once again on a bit of a learning curve to figure out the new interface of blogger.com.  Bare with me while I figure it out... The Good night Irene post is a little WONKY!

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Since arriving in the Carolina's we've battened down the hatches to prepare for some good named storms, but, luckily have not had to face their wrath.  Last year's Earl was like a fart in the wind. It barely rained.  This year however, we were on target to get Hurricane Irene as a category three directly on top of us.  The stores were stocking tons of bread and water.  The isles usually full of

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UCLA Week 7 - Literary Journalism Piece: Lil' Washington We could have chosen anywhere near here; New Bern “The Birthplace of Pepsi” or Bath “Home town of the infamous Pirate Black Beard” but we chose “The Original Washington” or as the locals affectionately refer to it: Lil’ Washington. Washington, North Carolina sits at the junction of the Tar and Pamlico Rivers. When Col. James Bonner

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I come from a family of pack rats. My Granny Dodie had an entire bedroom in her two-bedroom apartment devoted to boxes of stuff she wasn’t using. My mother had sets of good dishes we only looked at, and never used, unless it was a special occasion. My sister saved paints and markers lest they were used up rather than enjoy them for creative endeavors. I have acquired a lot of stuff. This stuff

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Tobacco Flowers in a Field in Eastern North CarolinaiPhoto By: Moi

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Eight weeks into working for The Comedy Network, I’m sitting with my boyfriend Steve at a VIP table at a comedy club. It is my job to meet talent, pair them with producers, meet producers, take pitches for TV series and take them all along the production line from development to on air. I love comedy, I love socializing, and this new job is a perfect fit! Most of all it is the perfect

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This morning while I was getting our breakfast ready, it's always the same, granola and yogurt, Finley came into the kitchen. She is wearing a white with florescent pink polka dot dress, my black fancy open toe high heeled shoes, a purse in the shape of a white poodle slung over her shoulder and the baby doll my dad gave her (that she has named grandpa baby) in her arms. Quickly I grab my phone

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JesseCruising the Carolinas afforded my husband and I opportunity to meet all kinds of characters. In Wilmington we made acquaintance with one swarthy cat. A wiry man of indeterminable age with skin like tan shoe leather. The dude would disappear for a few days and then reappear. He seemed agreeable enough but I didn't’t figure it would take too much to set him off. I was happiest when he was at

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Jack Planking the Target Ball

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Here is an excerpt from a piece of writing I did last week for school ... yes, the events actually happened last week while our vacation was just beginning: The Dinner PartyHannah has just finished helping me set the dining room table. It’s a formal antique table with a matching buffet and hutch in a light stained oak. The mish mash of place mats and chairs pulled from other parts of the house

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I have just begun a new class on-line through UCLA called The Art of Creative Non Fiction. I'm loving it so far. We have a really awesome class comprised of talented people from across the globe. A ballet dancer, teachers, stay at home mom's, students, copy editor's, and pre-med students just to name a few...for the next ten weeks we get to share each other's writings and lives. What a

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For my entire adult life I've had digestive issues. Symptoms have remained unchanged for years and years and I just coped. I steer away from a long list of foods that are disagreeable to me. I'm all about preventative medicine. I mean who wants to feel sh*tty? I don't eat fast food, gluten, meat and very little dairy. I do have a weakness for french fries and potato chips and even they have

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Finley at 25 months has a very funny sense of humour and her imagination is busting out so much earlier than I would have imagined. Just today she looked out the window of the truck ... this is the conversation that ensued.MamaFin Look over there at the goats!FinI see a puma. Pumas are my favorite. MamaWhere did you see the puma?FinRight up theywe - in that tree. Pumas and pink are my

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This morning Finley came running into my room with her pink baby under one arm and her pink sippy under the other. She threw them on the bed and then hoisted herself up, lunged at me and wrapped her arms around my neck. "Mama I love you." I melted she's never said that to me before. Then she said; "Your bum smells."

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I'm so inspired by photographing food lately! I didn't know it could be so much fun. Polly's Perfections is now open on the Main Street in Washington NC - I've been photographing the truffles so Lori, my friend and the owner of Polly's Perfections, can have a catalogue of treats on hand. She has also blown up some of the photos to hang in the store window and walls. Super cool - I've never

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Mother's Day is everyday when you have the gift of a child. Finley you are my sunshine and I love you infinitely. Now please sleep through the night and let me catch up on some much needed sleep, okay? Loves Ya.Mama

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June 10, 1918 - April 22, 2011My Grandma Dodie's BFF since girlhood was Alice. For as long as I can remember Alice was a part of our holidays. We called her Auntie Alice and it never occurred to us that she was of no relation. I don't think one needs to be a blood relative to be family and I'm pretty certain Alice would concur. Alice passed away this week. She was two months shy of her

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My next door neighbour Lori is the chocolatiere behind Polly's Perfections. She is about to open her new store front in downtown Washington NC. I've been helping her out by photographing the truffles so she can create a catalogue. Of course I get to sample too...I'm really digging photographing truffles! This one was blown up for the shop wall.Finner caught me in the middle of photographing

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Fin's cousins Aaron 16, Gavin 4, and Noah 2, are also born in April. We celebrated the kid's birthdays with an oyster roast out at our Brother in law's family horse farm in Baily NC.Finley driving the gator.Gavin & FinleyMe and my nephew Aaron Me and my nephew NoahJumping in the new trampoline.Oysters!Ryan and the oyster feastIan and Aaron shucking oysters I made this "Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Finley and I enjoying the hammock. I was showing her the bird's nest and baby birds in the tree above. Gosh, I LOVE her.

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I LOVE birthdays - it's truly the only day that's your own. I've been as excited for Finley's birthday as she has been. We've been singing Happy Birthday all week. When I was pregnant I planted tulips and daffodil bulbs so I could tell her when the tulips are blooming it's your birthday...but for the last two years the darn tulips are coming up with leaves and no stem or flower??? Go figure.I

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My Finley Mae turns two tomorrow. I can hardly believe it's been two years since she arrived in our lives. Everyone says it goes by so quickly and now I know that statement to be true! Last week while we were visiting our friend Justine, Finley found some bean bags Justine had sewn for her son Samuel. The were so pretty and soft and she had taken the time to blanket stitch the numbers one

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Spring Forward Re"treat" in Duck NCMeet the lovely ladies aka broads who attended the weekend retreat.Laura, Ebba, Kadra, ME, Brandi and SharonThe weather was 87 degrees the day before the retreat at the beach...by the time we were heading there it was a glorious 57drees F. No one minded as the company inside was so warm and cozy. We settled into our Friday afternoon, choosing bedrooms in the

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Some Day I'll Be OLD and I hope as FABULOUS as these ladies.Thanks to my bestie and fashionista friend Lucky for sharing this post. I HAD to pay it forward.Advanced Style: Age and Beauty on Nowness.com.

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Mother Ship Yoga and Wellness Presents:Spring Forward Yoga Re “TREAT”Friday March 25, - Sunday March 27, 2011Join us in the OBX for a weekend of Interdisciplinary Yoga PracticeHosted By: Michelle Shipley RYT 200hr Yoga Alliance MemberMichelle holds a 200 hour Interdisciplinary Yoga Certification from the Internationally renowned Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. She has studied under the

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As a new parent I marvel in all the milestones my daughter reaches, cheering her on with encouraging words, clapping and jumping up and down in enthusiastic praise. At 22 months old, she is talking a mile a minute, singing little songs, dancing, making it to the potty most of the time and playing really well alone and with her peers. The one developmental milestone I was not expecting to

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My kid likes soup. No, let me rephrase that. My kid LOVES soup. Every - day I ask her what she would like for lunch or dinner and she will excitedly say SOUP! Finley and I were invited to lunch just before Christmas at my friend Kadra's house. Kadra had made a delicious butternut squash soup from scratch. Fin was mad for it. She drank up three little recyclable paper Dixie Cups full and

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Or as my romantical husband calls today: "That made up holiday. It's not even a holiday it's so stooopid. " I know ladies hold your skirts down. Statements like that can make any woman swoon. I have been giving him the exact same Valentine every year since 2006. I tuck it away a few days after Valentine's Day and bring it out, add the date and a new message and give it to him the following year

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I hate the COLD and above all I can't stand SNOW. I hate wearing boots, shoveling, scraping cars, slippin on ice, marching through slop and slush, salt stains on my clothes and wind chill on my face. I'm born a January baby in Eastern Ontario, Canada and I can't stand winter. Go figure. So when I awoke the morning of December 26th to THIS:I packed the truck, grabbed the child, kissed my sweet

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It's 2011, and this officially marks the third year I've not had a juicy TV contract to launch into to rid myself of the January blues. This is absolutely of course due to choice. I want to be at home with my kiddo until she is school age. It's an important foundation I want to lay with her early development. Fortunately we are in a postiion where this is an option for us. However, this

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It was Christmas Day 2009, Steve's Mom, Aunt and I took the Pare' Family kids up to the bonus room to chillax for a while after a wild morning of tearing into presents, playing with new toys and general Christmas morning mayhem. I had ordered the original 1964 version of Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer narrated by Burl Ives from Netflix as it's one of my favorites and hoped the kids would enjoy

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01.11.11It's MY 38th Birthday!Finely and daddy bought me flowers. Fin ran at me holding them out screaming Happy Beeeerrrthday Momeeeee! She turned on her heel left the room and came running back in with a helium balloon. She was SO excited. She bust out in giggles when Steve bopped her on the head repetitively with it.Yoga was awesome! We celebrated my birthday by first practicing yoga and

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What a very quick year. I'd like to say I've thought lots about it and had many plans for the coming year, but, this one just came and went in the blink of an eye. I don't think I've thought of 2011 yet!2010's HighlightsJanuary We went to Costa Rica where our house was robbed on our second night. Major BUMMER for our friends who were hardest hit losing wedding bands, passports and money. The

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Ten years ago today my mother died. She bravely fought a six year battle and lost her life to Breast Cancer. She has been missed so badly by so many people. We all move on and remember her in our own ways. Sometimes the ten years seems like an eternity other times it seems like a moment. Her loss is a deep crevasse in my heart. Memoriam in Today's paper. I think I wrote the verse for her

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Finley has access to all of the lower cupboards and drawers in the kitchen. I have only locked off the one under the sink where I keep the dish soap and a few other household cleaners. I've decided to let her have at the others. There isn't anything in them to hurt her. She loves to explore and satisfy her curiosities. She has a grand time playing with the mason jar rings, wearing them as

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Okay, Day Light Savings Time, Your fall back has wreaked enough havoc on my toddler's schedule. I'd like my SEVERAL HOURS LOST battling an over-tired, past nap time, toddler back.Let's Spring Ahead NOW and call it even. OKAY?

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I love everything about Halloween! Halloween is my FAVORITE day of the year. It has been ever since I can remember. I love to dress up to go door to door to see all the costumes and pumpkins. Our friends would meet and tear through as many neighbourhoods as we could before 8:30 PM when we had to be home. Once home we dumped our pillow cases filled with the night's loot out onto the living

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When we were kids our parents used to take us on the NCC nature trials outside Barrhaven to walk or cross country ski. We always brought a bag of bird seed with us to feed the chickadees and nut-hatches who are bold enough to land in the palm of your hand or perch on your finger. It's simply amazing to feel their cold little feet against the warmth of your hand. It's mesmerizing to see them

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For writing me to remind me I have not posted in a while. I will very soon. Right now my hubs is working nights and I'm currently growing two extra arms and four sets of eyeballs so I can be on full time chase the toddler duty. Finley's recent activities include; climbing EVERYTHING, bringing me dog poop from the grass ...in her hand, "Mommy poopie!", soaking then eating dog food, taking the

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Have I ever mentioned that I was a fish eating vegetarian for a good 8 years or more? I am allergic to pork so I have to avoid all kinds of foods that may come in contact with pork. I ate chicken for a long while before I grew soooo tired of it I gave up eating meat all together. It's only been in the last three years that I have been "trying" meat. It started with a few select cuts of beef

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...At The Beach!Avon, North Carolina

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This GIANT spider has been working on it's web for a few days outside the doorway of the floral shop up the street from our house. Check out the zig-zag pattern in the web, it's just like a sewing machine was there leaving it's mark. I took this photo with my iPhone and this was as close as I was brave enough to stick my hand near it. It's about the size of the palm of your hand...thought you'd

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Since moving to the south - I cannot - grow a thing. I used to have an amazing garden. I used to grow all the ingredients to make tomato sauce and salsa and loved the whole canning process. I used to grow gorgeous cutting flowers and fill my house up with bouquets....but that was when I lived in Ontario. Now I raid other people's gardens! Our friends planted a wonderful garden and then left for

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Well, I have not been blogging so much lately as I've been out and about this summer with my family. I guess I'm making up for last summer, when it was too hot to go outside with my infant. With a toddler it's a whole new ball game! You know the saying "what a difference a year makes," in the child rearing world, there could be no saying more fitting.This is the Beaufort North Carolina

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ME do this!ME want this.ME, ME, MEeeeeeMy daughter refers to herself as ME. Pretty normal, I guess, EXCEPT that Steve and I have never taught her the word ME. We always call her Finley or some variation of Finley. So where does the ME come from? How does she even have this sense of self? Do I consult Freud? Is this a healthy ego in a 16 month old? Whaaaaaaa???Seriously people it's cute, but,

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This is 16 month old Finley shielding herself from the paparazzi that is mommy and Aunt Kelly. I'm addicted to taking pics of her. It's kinda ridiculous. Here she is on our evening walk. In Fin's words she's wearing her EYES, and holding onto Rarrrr (bear) and baby.Much to my delight Finley has a love of shoes...just like me.Shoes are by Joe (Lawblaws Canada)Socks (Gymboree)Stroller is the Indy

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My dad has been here all week. Finley now has a new BFF. His name is Grampa!Feeding the turtles and Grandpa along the boardwalk.Finely walks her puppy and crocodile while telling Grampa a great story.** As An Aside: Thank you TWWLY for the Plan Toys crocodile. It's a favorite and I always know where she is and what she is doing when she plays with it!Colouring with Grampa.Ah, pretzels and beer

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When I was in junior high school my school fundraising team was on a flower-gram, candy-gram, friend -o- gram, smoke a gram (kidding) kick. They would take any opportunity to gram something to some one most of the proceeds went to a charity of some sort. I remember my bestie Kelly and I sent each other flower grams and the cards read,"Yes Sir Colonel Sir." It was an inside joke phrase that

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Hey bloggess land! Are any of you getting comments left regarding your posts that link back to an odd site? I have a few that link back to tire sales and such. Bizarre-O. Anyone know what kind of new spam this is?

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Music in the Streets is a really neat concept. The downtown main street of my little town of Washington NC is closed to cars and then every 30 feet or so a band is set up for about two city blocks. All kinds of music is played at once and despite how close the bands or musicians are to one another they don't compete. It's a unique concept and it is growing in popularity each month. Music in

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Last Friday after play group Finley introduced me to her new friend. Honestly, through her I was all of a sudden a little girl again catching caterpillars, asking my mom for a jar, waiting as patiently as possible for my dad to knock holes in the top of the metal lid with a hammer and nail so my captive caterpillar could have air. I could see where my daughter's curiosity will take her

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Finley was invited to her first "party." It was a sundae party. The host was turning four and had never had a sundae before. It was so cool to be a part of another child's first along with Fin's. A child's delight at experiencing anything for the first time supersedes anything I've ever experienced. Finley has never had chocolate ice cream. She has never had a sundae. She has never had

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In the last month or so Finley has been able to take her afternoon naps all by herself! Seeing as she would ONLY sleep in the car or the ergo for the last year this independent nap time has been a phenomenon other mothers know and experience. Now I get to as well. I LOVE it! Seriously. I get some much needed down time - of course I am using the time to do all the stuff I need to get done

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Fin and I love to play at the park. We go almost every day for a little while to play. Our favorite is the swing. Swings induce smiling!

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I am a lover of a warm climate. The last month has brought us temperatures in the high 90's with humidity and that makes me so comfy in my skin! With the hot weather comes my complete and total lack of desire to eat much of anything unless it's fresh salads. I've been composing some pretty creative salads lately!A sampling of salads.Organic herb salad greens with grilled tofu.Organic herb salad

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Happy 2nd Father's Day Daddy!Daddy showing Finley the fish he caught.Finley colouring on Daddy's Father's day card.We went to visit Daddy at his work in the Emergency department - I don't have a picture of that because it was not appropriate to be snapping pics in the ED! We brought Daddy a travel mug with photos of Finley and Daddy. He liked it. Afterward we went to Pet Smart to watch the dogs

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Last week we were at the beach with our good friends the Elston family. Tony Elston is one of Steve's BFF's. They've bickered like an old married couple since they were in kindergarten - I think. Tony's parents, who totaly rock, were also at the beach with us which is fast becoming a yearly vacation. This being our 3rd year in a row. All the men windsurf, surf and kite board, all the women

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Finley is DOG OBSESSED. She gets so excited every time she sees one. She signs dog, and says; dog, puppy, woof, hahh haaaa with her tongue sticking out like she's panting and she gives dog kisses by licking your face. That is SIX words used to describe one thing. That might tell you how into the canine creatures she is.We are cautious with her approach of dogs she doesn't know. We are trying

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Finley knows her way around a fish. Moments like this with Finley & her Daddy would be lost if it weren't the iphone!

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Salvo, North CarolinaIke 18 months & Finley 14 months Uncle Tony, Doggie Darko & Finley

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Fin said MOMMY well MOOOOMMMMEEEEEEEE! For the first time last Tuesday. I jumped over the moon. She was stuck in the garden between some big potted tomato pants and a shrub. It was about the cutest thing ever and the most amazing word I have ever heard. All day today she has been practicing. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Hilarious. I always call myself Mama. So does Steve. Out she comes with Mommy.

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Here is our 13 month old. She's busy, funny, feisty and curious. She has been running all around and has now mastered the stairs both up and down (yikes!) and has a great grasp of words. This week she began speaking a whole bunch of "B" words which include: book, bird, ball, bath and her all time favorite "bye-bye!" She also says: Hi there, mommy, daddy, ceesus (for Cecil) , meow, woof - woof

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Steve is a shift worker. He has been on afternoons and then nights for the last few weeks. It's a tough shift for him and it's pretty tough on Fin too. She misses her Daddy. Late in the day when it is time for Steve to wake up and ready for work I like to send Finley into wake her Daddy. She says Dada over and over as we climb the stairs and when she sees him she squeals with delight and says

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Finley has LOVED music since she was in my body. When I was five months pregnant I went to see the NC Symphony perform Handel's The Messiah, she twirled and wriggled each time the symphony played she settled when the choir sang. Since birth Finley has enjoyed music. She is a little dancing and music requesting fiend. While out on the boat last week she looked at her dad held her middle finger

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Well it's been a couple of months since my friend Rachel and I hosted the Yoga & Journaling Retreat in Duck North Carolina, but, the first time I tried to post this it failed. One of those heartbreaking I've got the baby to nap, written, uploaded and now where the BLEEEEP did it all go kinda fails! Of course I got through it all with my yoga breath and now I'm just getting around to putting

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Between Steve and his two sisters there are six kids. That's right, all under the age of four! The last time we were all together was Christmas when not a single adult in the room could wrangle all the kids together to have a group photo taken. There was always one child crying (usually mine) or down for a nap or off with one or another of the relatives to give moms a break. This week we were

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With a string of days in the high 80's I figured it was a perfect time to take the yoga mats from my home studio to the laundry mat so I could wash them up and then hang them out to dry. My students have been working hard on those mats and my dog has also been giving them a work out. He seems to think my mat is for eating his crunchy food over. Like it's perhaps a giant place mat. Then last

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Mother's Day PhotoFrom the Vault: Circa 1985Granny Dodie, Seester Sue (10), Mum (38), Me (12).First of note. My mother is one year older than I am right now in this photo. It astonishes me.This is me looking at Fin the way Mum is looking at Sue (Above).My Grandma Dodie is my dad's mom. Her birthday is May 14th which usually coincided with Mother's Day. This ticked Gran off to no end. She really

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This was ONE strawberry. It actually was hollow.I ate it.

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Mom 101 is one of the first blogs I began following when I found out I was prego. I get a kick out of her. Today she posted this link to a contest: Six-Word MOMoirs! • CONTEST: Six words on being a mother or your relationship with your mom.So having just completed a MEMOIR writing class through UCLA, this mention of writing about your mother or mothering experience in 6 words has presented a

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I'm Tired.There I said it. Two words in a new mom's vocabulary and with Finley on the cusp of her 13th month and finally sleeping through the night I should not be saying these words at all. I should be playing catch up on sleep. Instead I'm enjoying my new nighttime freedom, pushing off sleep and staying up to an ungodly hour like 11 pm or midnight. By the time I get to bed I'm over tired and

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Potty all the time potty allllll the tiiiimmmmme.....Well actually, that's not true, as she has been on the potty strike since February 13th 2010. She was just 10 months old and had discovered walking and other exciting things and so she temporarily gave up pooping on the potty. While she won't do her business on the potty - the potty has been left out so she remains familiar with it, so she

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This weekend I bought a few new flower pots. I thought they were for my plants but as it turns out they are the best place for a 12 month old to hide! She's been climbing in and out of them at every chance she gets. I almost hate to fill them with soil and the shrubs I had intended them for.Day OneDay TwoShe also likes to put her orange ball in the flower pot. Maybe that's how basket ball was

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Memory LaneI heart peonies as much as the ants do!I bought these peonies yesterday at the Washington Farmer's Market. I'm so happy the farmer's market is up and running again! Finley and I strolled uptown to the peruse the wares and came home with home made BBQ sauce, fresh local grown strawberries, a dozen fresh eggs and this bouquet of Peonies. The side of the house of the home I grew up in,

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A small scene from my backyard.Get outside and enjoy the day - even for a few minutes!

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Finley and I have had a good run at breast feeding. She took to the breast and never looked back! We always did breast feeding on demand. She refused bottles, pacifiers and took a very long time to try a sippy cup. She is a boobies addict. I have had mixed emotions about the whole breast feeding thing. Most of the time I love it. The bond we share, the snuggle time, the fact that her food is

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My hubs Steve likes to perform experiments...ask my seester Sue. Her son Aaron is deaf. Sue and I came into the room one time to see Steve twirling Aaron around and around in circles. Aaron was grinning from ear to ear. "What are you doing?" we ask Steve. "Aaron is deaf - if he truly has no middle ear then he won't get dizzy. I want to prove this theory wrong. I think he will get dizzy!"

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Finley & Cecil HELP THEMSELVES to lasagna.Um, Yeah. You've been caught in the act! On video too.

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The Log FarmThis is the Log Farm in Ottawa (Nepean). It stands rustic and beautiful amongst the fields in between Cedarview Road and the 416. It's an awesome little farm. The horse, sheep, pot bellied pig, goat and chickens roam the property and are well socialized. A little girl came running out of the hen houses calling her daddy to come see what she had. She was super delighted to find a

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A Photo Essay of Fin's Party.The Invite & The TableIt's strawberry season! I made a spongecake with a strawberry jam fresh berry filling. Steve made the real whip cream. Fin's cake was french vanilla. YUMMY!Strawberry cupcakes with cream cheese icing. (Yes, Heather I'll make them for your 40th bday party!)I decorated a few with little gummie animals. They were a hit with the kids.Fin playing

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The year has flown by like everyone told me it would. Our lives are so much brighter with Finley. We love you Happy Birthday Sweet One!Momma is not sitting on an ice pack this year - YAY!

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Finley and I were in Ottawa Ontario Canada - my home town - for Easter week. We had an awesome time visiting our family. On Easter Monday we had lunch with my mom's seester, my Aunt Dianne. Finley's great Aunt Dianne. She is Canada's answer to Paula Dean!Aunt Dianne made little cream cheese and salmon sandwich fingers for Miss Fin with rice pudding and peaches for dessert.Fin is waiting for

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Our Finley Mae is turning ONE on Saturday April 10th! Where has the year gone? All I can think about is how fat I was this time last year, how I drank two litres of soy milk a day with a box of Shreddies. I wondered if my mother's instinct telling me I was carrying a daughter was wishful thinking or accurate. I wondered what our birth story would be, and if I would be terrified. I wanted a

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I've been remiss in adding posts up here! Unfortunately, I had a great post all done up about the yoga retreat and it has vanished and the videos I was trying 75 million times to upload for the Monkey See Monkey Do post failed every time ... I'm left wondering what little bugs are affecting blogspot?Further excuses as to why I've dropped off the face of the blogging earth:1 . Finley is running

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In case there was any doubt that your 11 month old child is a sponge... here are some cute video's taken this week. Here Finley helps Daddy stock the fridge with beer. Check out this video if Fin cleaning!!! It's my habit to give the kitchen a good once over every morning while Finster eats breakfast. Clearly she is watching me closely from her high chair's perch! I didn't coach her - I turned

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Help! E.C Moms out there I need some advice / support please! Finley has decided she WILL NOT sit on the potty. This is quite a shift because Finley has been pooping no problem on the potty since she was 4 moths old. She even signs "toilet" at me before she has a bowel movement and I have had time enough to get her onto the potty so she can go. In the past three weeks everything has changed.

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I have had some interesting and random thoughts and observations since becoming a mother. Thought I'd share them. Be forewarned they are nothing if not profound!I used to do three colours of laundry, white, light colours, and black. Since having a daughter I now do a FULL PINK load. The grocery stores have a cookie club for kids!!! At the Harris Teeter (we call it the Hairy Peter - mature eh?)

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Finley don't feed the dog please.These cookies? I'll just let him look at the cookie.Cecil you can lick the cookie.See momma I still have the cookie.Look how tall our sprout has become! She's taller than the kitchen stools!Happy Birthday Cecil Bean. Today he is 11 years old!

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Sniff, sniff. My baby is verticle. I just want to keep her small and yet we are so excited at her developments. Well here she is 10.5 months old - walking up the hallway in our home. This video just taken this evening.

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BOOGER FACEOh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh Fin's full of snot, showing mom lots of snot B-b-b- Booger face, b-b-booger face (mum mum mum mah) B-b-b-booger face, b-b-booger face (mum mum mum mah)SAVE US!xxMother Ship

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Yoga & journaling RetreatWe are pleased to let you know the accommodations have been filled for the retreat. We are happy to offer Full and Half Day passes to join us in Duck North Carolina. (Of course if you want to come and stay near by I can help to find you accommodations nearby!)Immerse yourself in yoga, guided meditation and journal writing in the comfort of a beautiful beach house in Duck

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