From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Decade the Next

by Alicia 31 December 2009

December 31, 1999

I fell asleep watching The Last Emperor with Brad. We watched the ball drop in Times Square on tv later that evening, but I still felt reallllly ruuuun downnn.
Two days later, I had my second kidney stone. A day after that, I was hospitalized for ten days with a case of bacterial pneumonia [...]

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Gangsta Ants

by Alicia 28 December 2009

From the box of one (of two) of the glow-in-the-dark ant habitats Kieran got for Christmas.
I am not making this up.
Ants will be any place in the world, however, do you know anything about the living. The Ants is mysterious kingdom and feverish collectivism group. At the same time, ants definitely divide among various [...]

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Word, Person, Tool

by Alicia 28 December 2009

Word or phrase. A word that encapsulates your year. “2009 was _____.”*
Quick. I know it’s cliche, but the older I get, the faster time moves. In 2009, I met my last child. It seems like I was pregnant six minutes ago, but he’s seven months old now. Likewise, it’s become more and more apparent recently [...]

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Bethsix: Best of 2009

by Alicia 26 December 2009

Stolen from Scary Mommy’s Best Blog Posts of 2009.
January – January 10, 2009 – The (most recent) beginning. So funny to see myself so tentative, as this blogging thing really became a passion of mine this year.
February – Kieran’s Club – I like this one because it reminds me of where my sweet oldest [...]

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