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It’s Tribute Thursday, ya’ll. That’s when I try to remind you that there are amazing people in the world. Meet the LaBorde Famille! I say famille because they’re French. When we were a new family at Abernethy Elementary, I used to notice Shonda dropping her son Josson off at Steven’s first grade class with a …
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Our boys were in the same kindergarten class. How could I not notice Trina walking in with her super-cute hair and retro wool jackets with buttons the size of Red Flyer wheels? One day, she asked if I wanted to join her and another mom named Heather for Saturday walks. What? I’m getting asked by …
Something overcame me in the fall of last year. I couldn’t stop thinking about my dream dog. The thing is, I didn’t even want a dog. I wanted this dog. Ever since I met a bull terrier named Plait in Copenhagen in the ‘80s, I had been obsessed with those pointy dogs. So I started …
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Every time Brian goes out of town for a length of time, I bow down to single parents everywhere. How do you do everything, be everything, all the time? It's been that kind of week. My car won't get out of park. Unless you're making out, it's not a useful situation. Somehow, we've all gotten …
Get ready. Set. Walk! That's right, Team AC/DT (Abernethy Cancer Dream Team) is going to tear up the asphalt! We are going to walk so fast and beat the clock during our untimed race. Pretty sure there won't be any Olympic fist pumping action with all those people. Plus, wearing a mullet wig might cause …
September is intense. Steven went to his first day of middle school; Liv, first day as a fourth grader. I burned through so much energy being annoyingly happy at drop off, I'm beat now. I'll bet thousands of parents go to bed with visions of their children's homework dancing through their heads.THREE POSITIVES:1- Nothing says …
About 20 minutes after my last radiation, I went to pick up my kids at my bud Julie's house. They had cider and champagne waiting - so nice! Steven was super emotional and made a toast saying: "Thanks for being so strong for us." Livvie cuddled up next to me. I told them it's okay …
And the oven. And the car. Five weeks of radiation has finally taken its toll. Yesterday, I sent out an email to everyone I know, including the entire elementary school list, vowing to: "increase the changes that another family will get breast cancer." Nice. While I was at it, I spelled my own Race for …
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