It's been said that life is what happens when you are making plans. This is what I experienced last May when life interrupted my plans to regularly update this blog over the summer and took me instead on a five month medical journey that ended with having part of my colon removed on October 14th. I apologize for my absence and look forward to resuming my momlogic posting activities after I recover from the surgery.
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Added by Julie Albin on October 25, 2009 at 11:43am —
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“Mom, am I annoying?” Hollie asked when I came into her bedroom to kiss her goodnight.
“No,” I assured her.
“What if other people think I’m annoying?”
“You’re not responsible for what other people think. You are only responsible for what you do,” I reminded her. “Is this about the fight you had with your sister?”
“What fight?”
“The one where Katie shoved you off the computer chair because you kept pushing buttons when the screen was locked up.”
“No,” Hollie replied. “It’s about something t…
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Added by Julie Albin on May 8, 2009 at 2:36pm —
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It puzzles me when people on shows like “Designed to Sell” wait to fix up their home until they are ready move out. Why not do the work up front so you can enjoy the fruits of your labor? My husband feels the same way and, over the past year, we have been working to finish decorating our home. Bill’s in charge of finding artwork. His most recent purchase was a serigraph by a well-known artist, which we picked out for Katie’s room.
Katie was excited on the day that it arrived in the mail … perha…
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Added by Julie Albin on April 23, 2009 at 8:09am —
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I believe that a wife should be her husband’s biggest cheerleader ... especially when her children are present. Years ago, I remember one of my daughters complaining that Bill was working all the time. I was quick to remind her that it was her dad’s job that made it possible for me to stay home with them. Several years later, I am still waving pom-poms for my spouse. Like when Katie started to get after her dad for not hanging up his jacket.
“We need to tell Dad not to leave his coat lying arou…
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Added by Julie Albin on April 16, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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Tonight, my youngest asked her Dad if the Easter Bunny was coming.
When Bill told her that the Easter Bunny might be feeling a little under the weather this year, she quickly replied: "You look fine to me."
Have a blessed Easter everyone!
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Added by Julie Albin on April 11, 2009 at 10:26pm —
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“Bill, can you put the girls to bed while I answer the phone?” I asked as I ran for the nearest receiver.
Knowing that I was expecting a call from a friend who was coming to visit in two weeks, he left his computer to comply with my request. When the conversation ended a few minutes later, I walked into my oldest daughter’s room to tell her goodnight and learned that tonight’s bedtime ritual was anything but routine.
“Why are you crying?” I asked.
“Hollie came into my room and started botheri…
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Added by Julie Albin on March 5, 2009 at 11:04pm —
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I love watching prerecorded television programs because I can skip the commercials and get right to the good stuff. Sometimes, I wish that life came with a digital recorder so we could fast forward through the times that seem too difficult to get through at normal speed—like the week before my daughter’s eleventh birthday party. She’d invited ten girls and almost all of them were planning to stay over.…
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Added by Julie Albin on March 1, 2009 at 6:00am —
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My daughters were complaining often—and hitting each other occasionally—because their privacy was not being respected.
"Katie keeps coming into my room and sitting on my bed," Hollie complained when I asked why she scratched her sister’s face.
"Hollie makes a mess in my room and then leaves without cleaning it up," Katie yelled after ‘accidentally’ hitting her sister in the nose.
To keep the peace (or in this case restore it), I asked the girls to write down some rules that they would each ha…
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Added by Julie Albin on February 20, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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While walking my daughters to the bus stop today, a neighbor drove up to let me know that the bus had already come and gone.
“Where is the next stop?” he asked.
“It’s just a block south of ours,” I pointed.
“I’ll drive them,” he volunteered as he looked in Katie’s and Hollie’s direction.
“No!” Hollie whispered.
I was torn. Every morning for two years, this grandfather has been waiting with his grandchildren at our bus stop . . . yet I didn't know his name. Which was worse: not trusting a ma…
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Added by Julie Albin on February 18, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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I hate not having closure. Tonight, it was all I could do to allow my oldest to put off writing some of her birthday thank yous until tomorrow. As I proofed a few of the cards and helped her seal the envelopes, one note in particular caught my eye.
“Thanks for the lottery tickets,” Katie wrote. “Although I didn’t win anything, I had fun scratching them!”
“You scratched all five tickets, already?” I asked.
“All but two of the Bingo ones,” Katie replied.
“If you haven’t scratched two of them,…
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Added by Julie Albin on February 9, 2009 at 11:01am —
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Our electrician just left ... without installing an overhead light in my office. It had taken me weeks to get his boss to commit to a date; and now this employee wanted to reschedule because he didn't have the bolt he needed to hang it.
"Can't you buy what you need at Home Depot?" I asked. "It's just five minutes away."
"Maybe, but I'd rather wait to make sure it's done right."
My first instinct was to share how upset I was in an attempt to bully him into finishing the job today. Then I remem…
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Added by Julie Albin on January 27, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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Can someone who feels like she accomplishes nothing of significance leave big shoes to fill when she’s gone? I don’t know why I was asking myself this morbid question as I folded clothes and waited for my daughters to get home from school. Maybe because I recently started following people on
twitter and, when I read updates from authors and publishers who share their industry-related accomplishments, it reminds me that my calendar looks…
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Added by Julie Albin on January 22, 2009 at 4:12pm —
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Watching Barack Obama's inauguration on television reminded me of the year that my daughters and I stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Actually, Hollie and I stood on the steps as we watched Katie lie down in protest because she couldn’t take another step. I find it interesting that, at the place where my oldest daughter decided she was too tired to go on, another person now stood ready to take over.…
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Added by Julie Albin on January 21, 2009 at 1:00am —
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A drain in our basement is clogged and there is water in our basement. My husband worked on it for part of the morning. Although I should be equally concerned, for some reason, I am not.
Why?
After pondering this question for a few seconds I realized that I trust Bill to solve the problem because it's his area of expertise, not mine. Knowing how good if feels to hand my problems off to an expert makes me wonder why more people don't turn theirs over to God.
Whenever my daughters wonder…
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Added by Julie Albin on January 17, 2009 at 9:10pm —
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A few days after deciding that "Lead Me Where You Need Me" would be my mantra for the new year, my husband came home to say that his company might need us to move back to Omaha. Although I wasn't ready to leave, I knew that if God wanted us back in Nebraska, there must be a reason. Bill agreed and said that he would keep me posted on what the firm decided. Thankfully, a decision was reached that my husband was needed more in Chicago than elsewhere and I do NOT have to add relocating to our annua…
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Added by Julie Albin on January 17, 2009 at 1:00am —
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I started out this year without much of a plan. I knew that I wanted to become more active on the internet by contributing to sites other than my online ministry www.diggingouttogether.com, but I wasn't sure which one. Then I stumbled upon momlogic.com and it felt right to join.
I remember thinking to myself after posting my first comment: "I don't know where this will lead, Lord, but I will do my best to follow."
Because rhymes help me to remember things, I immediately latched onto the first…
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Added by Julie Albin on January 7, 2009 at 10:30am —
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