Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 9, 2013

This post originally published back in November 2008. I was the mother of a toddler and a baby and I loaded them up in the van and headed to a jewelry store where I ran into a camera crew and walked out with $150 in cash. It was a fun morning for me and my girls and my oldest daughter got a kick out of seeing us on local evening news.

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Jewelry Finds Craigslist Cameras 138

Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Our sweet boy, Toby was our first baby though. In 2006, our oldest daughter was 1. 2008…the year that I failed as a mother. I can’t find a single picture of our youngest daughter’s first Christmas. So we’ll skip on to 2009 when our second daughter was 1 1/2 and our oldest was 4.

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Christmas Hard Drives 2005 Daughter 100

Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

So when our oldest daughter was born 7 years ago, we were over-joyed.and maybe a bit overwhelmed. Right after our daughter was born, I read an article in the newspaper that tugged at my heart and my postpartum hormones. That first year, the family was a single mother whose infant son was born just a few days before our daughter.

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Family Holiday 2005 Daughter 147