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I Am Thankful: Day 4

November 7, 2010

I am thankful that my parents thought music was important enough to force me into piano lessons for so many years. I am thankful that my parents took us to the Memphis Symphony when I was growing up — though likely even more thankful that they let us leave at intermission to eat dessert at [...]

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I Am Thankful: Day 3

November 6, 2010

I love the highs and lows that come with loving a team so deeply. My first true devotion was Memphis State basketball, and, when I went to college at LSU, I began to bleed purple and gold. I spent a few years after college teaching elementary school in The Bronx, and cheered on the Yankees. Married a [...]

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I Am Thankful: Day 2

November 5, 2010

I am thankful for my brothers and sisters. I am one of five, smack dab in the middle. An older sister, an older brother. A younger sister, a younger brother. From James to Blair, and us three girls in the middle, from beginning to end we are 13 years apart. This is our Christmas-card picture [...]

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I Am Thankful: Day 1

November 4, 2010

I am thankful for my kitchen table. I am a big fan of Thanksgiving. Not of the food, ironically {perhaps I will get into this in another post}, but rather because it forces us, whether we want to or not, to recongize the bits and pieces of our lives, both present and past, that we actually are thankful [...]

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Heartbreak

November 1, 2010

Yes we are in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Yes we are Rangers fans. Yes we congratulate the Giants. But the Peacock is a bit heartbroken tonight.

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Man’s Best Friend {and Minnie Mouse’s too}

October 28, 2009

It should’ve been like any other Sunday around here, and, in many ways, it was.  My husband made his weekend-morning breakfast — Sunday brought scrambled eggs, sausage and biscuits — and we cheered the Cowboys on to victory.  Somehow, though, between those two rather typical Sunday events, we became dog owners, too. We have certainly discussed [...]

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Oldies but Goodies

September 23, 2009

I have no idea if this is strange or not (likely is as my personality just tends to be), but my two favorite foods growing up were tacos and meatloaf (not served on the same night of course).  I’ve now added my husband’s steaks, my father-in-law’s Caesar salad, my mother-in-law’s sausage crepes and my sister’s [...]

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Good Things Come in Small Packages

September 17, 2009

Four years and 22 days ago to date, my husband and I jumped into our car, picked up some full-strength coffee (my doctor always told me it was better for the sonogram to have a little caffeine in my system) and headed to Baylor University Medical Center for our 32-week pregnancy check-up.  It was on [...]

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The Fourth Pittman Baby

September 14, 2009

There is rarely a product out there that MAKES me want to have another baby.  I write the following few paragraphs with much Mommy love for my youngest son, Henry, who was possibly the worst baby ever.  He screamed, literally, for half a year – starting when he was about 2 months and finally stopped [...]

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At Last

July 28, 2009

Five days before I was married, straight-line winds, in excess of 100 miles per hour, barrelled through my home town.  70% of the county was left without power and, consequently, without air conditioning, including the sites we’d chosen for the rehearsal dinner, the bridesmaid’s luncheon, the church and the reception hall.  Our guests stayed in [...]

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