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Funny Face

by Jenbshaw

on November 11, 2009 in Parenting

Every so often a child comes along who has so much life and so much sparkle that you needn’t ever meet them to fall completely in love. Madeline Alice Spohr was one of those children. Today, November 11, is her second birthday. She was sweet. She was funny. She was loving. She was goofy. She [...]

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In My Defense

by Jenbshaw

on November 9, 2009 in Playing House

So last week (or was it the week before) Meghan got the rule book out and totally fired my ass. I’m not sure who she thinks she is. Then as if that wasn’t bad enough she claimed to have rubbed on me off on me. I would love to stand up and defend myself but [...]

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Rules of the Road

by Jenbshaw

on November 4, 2009 in Identity

I am NOT a good driver. This is something I freely and fully admit to. It’s not that I don’t know how to drive, I’m just a very nervous driver. I fear that I will misread a sign or somehow end up going the wrong way on a one-way street. In the town, ok rural [...]

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It’s not rocket science, dude

by Jenbshaw

on October 19, 2009 in Playing House

Believe it or not I don’t aim low in every aspect of my life. I know, right, I’ll give you a moment to digest that. In fact I have one skill that I am so proud of and so confident in that I would challenge anyone of you to a duel of sorts. What is [...]

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Not one of my better days

by Jenbshaw

on October 5, 2009 in Parenting

I was actually getting some decent sleep Monday morning when I heard the baby cooing in his crib. He sounded content just chattering to himself so I went back to sleep, at least I tried. Two minutes later my husband came in with the baby and plopped him down beside me. The crying commenced. So [...]

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Zombie Willow Tree Angels – coming soon to a store near you.

by Jenbshaw

on September 22, 2009 in Playing House

A few years ago I began collecting Willow Tree Angels. It was the “in” thing and lets be honest, I’m a trend jumper. I began asking for them for every gift-giving holiday and purchasing them for myself here and there. Whenever Ryan would ask “what do you want for {insert holiday}”, I would say “I’d [...]

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Teenyboppers, I do not heart you.

by Jenbshaw

on August 31, 2009 in Pop Culture

When I was a young girl I had all the latest issues of Tiger/Teen Beat. I carefully cut out all the hot bodies and pretty faces so I could look at them all day long. Most of them adorned my walls while the really special ones got taped to my notebooks. For the record I [...]

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It’s ok that I’m not ok.

by Jenbshaw

on August 19, 2009 in Identity

I am not ok. There I said it. Lately, I am just. not. alright. I realize that usually we are a funny bunch here at Aiming Low but, I just don’t have it in me.  In a perfect world there would be sunshine and rainbows and all kinds of funny spewing from my mouth all [...]

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What the books didn’t tell me about motherhood

by Jenbshaw

on August 10, 2009 in Parenting

I miss mai brain. Yes you read that right I miss my brain. Apparently when the doctors were digging around in my tummy trying to get the baby out they sucked out my brain along with him. It saddens me that it was placed into one of those bio-hazard trash bins with the rest of [...]

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My (un)Decorated House

by Jenbshaw

on August 3, 2009 in Playing House

A little over a year ago my husband and I bought our first house. I can’t tell you how F-ing excited I was to finally live in a house, a house that I could do whatever I wanted to with. Oh, the purchases I made, my big-girl house was going to be like one in [...]

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