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Drake and Daddy sportin' some shades Written by Rich:  Dear Lord in the heavens aboveI ask you for a surgical hand with a gloveFor our baby has a hole in his heart And now it needs to be taken apart. Lord oh Lord in the heavens aboveThe baby you’ve sent us is very lovedWe thank you for him every day And we cherish the moments we get to play The doctors say he’s got something called a VSD

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Our Drakie was a bit of a grouch when he was first born. His newborn photos have the same, scrunched up facial expression.  Get off my lawn! Once Drake began to smile, however, his entire face changed. His sweet, toothless, open-mouthed smile lights up his face, and our world. This baby smiles ALOT. He is a happy boy.  Hello, World! His heart, no doubt, is full of love. Love

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January, February, March, April, May, June, July...here we are on August 9th. 7 months. Freezing, non-stop snowing, bitter-cold January to broiling, sweaty, melting August. The weather isn't the only thing that's changed around here. This guy came into our lives on January 9th, and our world forever changed for the better. Happy 7 months, Drake. We love you more than you can ever imagine.

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It's been a long time. I've missed you. But it's a new year - to me, at least. Yesterday was my birthday.  Today is my first official day being 37 years old alive. Lots of things have happened since I last wrote on my blog. Life-changing. Energy-sucking. Time-erasing things. No-way-can-I-keep-up-my-blog types of things. But I want to try, again. So here goes! Happy Birthday to Me. Happy

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Hello out there! So, what's been happening since my last post, when I announced my pregnancy? The most significant thing to report is that we found out our baby's sex at our 20 week ultrasound. Luke will be a big brother to a little BOY!         I cried tears of shock and Rich nearly cried with joy when we saw the tell-tale peesch on the screen. Nothing about this pregnancy, from how I feel to

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Thank you, Juno, for the words of my title. This Momma has a bun in the oven, another baby lion cub on the way, a little one due in January. I did three things this spring to insure that this happened (well, 3 things besides the obvious... please don't make me explain where babies come from, mmkay?): (1) I bought myself clothes that fit and looked good - including jeans. It was an epic shopping

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I've been yelling a lot lately. At this guy, in particular.   I know, how can you yell at that face, right? I feel awful about it afterwards, of course, but I can't undo it. The horrible relentless heat is somewhat to blame, because we've been marooned inside our air conditioned living room for the last 2 weeks. Luke makes huge messes, seemingly instantly, and spreads them around everywhere -

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I've been out of the blogging loop for a long time now...since the end of May.  I just stopped - stopped writing, pretty much stopped reading other blogs, and stopped twittering. Things were happening and life was buzzing along as it does and I just stopped. I'm getting my groove back now, as things slow down a bit, so I'm jumping in again. I'm working on a post for tomorrow. That's where I start

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Luke and I were discussing clearing out some old toys to make way for the ones he now plays with the most. After explaining that he needs to give some old toys away to kids who have none, especially if he wants some new toys, Luke agreed. I told Luke "Thank you for speaking to me so nicely about your toys." Luke then said to me "Thank you for always being so nice to me, Mommy." AAWWW - what a

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We completed the Canines for a Cure walk on Sunday. Being our first attempt at anything like this, I really wasn't sure how it would go. It was a beautiful day to walk a mile around a lake through a lovely park. Thankfully my parents came also, because I needed more than the two hands I have to keep a hold on both my 80-lb. dog and my 30-lb. fireball of a son. Kyle was calm and cool despite being

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                                                      http://li.canines.llsevent.org/serecrew                                                                         As many of you know, my family is participating in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Canines for a Cure walk. This one mile walk takes place this Sunday, May 16th, at Belmont State Lake Park in Babylon (on Long Island). This is

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     Last night, I attended my first blogging event.  My inaugural real-life interaction with fellow bloggers was at a cocktail party at the Affinia 50 Hotel in Manhattan.  This party was hosted by two local blogging mothers who I follow on twitter and looked forward to meeting.   Carol of www.NYCityMama.com and  Corine of www.ComplicatedMama.com  organized this fabulous event through Help A

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My longest friendship has been with a girl I met in kindergarten. Alison and I met and became instant best friends at the age of five.  Going through grade school, we were inseparable, the way that only pre-teen girls can be - not sitting next to each other at lunch would ruin our day, despite the fact that we sat next to each other all day, passing notes to each other, and then went home and

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This blogging world is still new to me.  I spend lots of time reading other people's blogs and not enough writing on my own.  I am making a pledge to myself to find time everyday this month to write something...anything....as long as I write.  I don't even know if it's the actual writing or the time set aside for myself that's driving me, but I think it's a combination of the two.  In addition,

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There is a tree around the corner from our house that I keep an eye on as the weather begins to change.  During our walks, I point this tree out to Luke and show him the green buds.  Seeing this tree blossom is truly my first sign that winter is finally, truly over, at least until December.  Getting the first whiff of these magnolia flowers really sets my mind for the renewal that is Spring.  

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About this time last year, I had just been introduced to the idea of blogging. As I wandered through this whole new online stratosphere, I kept seeing one family written about, over and over - The Spohr Family. Heather Spohr writes about her life and family on her website www.thespohrsaremultiplying.com. As I began exploring the world of blogging, Heather and her husband Mike's world crashed in

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This day, 3 years ago, was my due date. March 31st, 2007 was the magical date that Rich and I were given in August 2006 when the doctor confirmed the news that the bun was officially in the oven. From that point on, only 2 dates stood out in highlighted marker, circled in red on my internal calendar. Our upcoming wedding (October 27th, 2006), and today, 3 years ago. I pretty much knew what to

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Three years ago, Rich and I had just made it through our first week as parents.  We were shell-shocked by it all: the extreme pain I was in after an emergency c-section, the extreme sleeplessness, the extreme neediness of this little creature who roared his way into our lives on March 14th, 2007.  Our lucky charm Luke was just over six pounds when we brought him home on St. Patrick's Day 2007.  

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*Our favorite furball, Kyle, turns 11 years old today! Happy Birthday, you handsome fella! xoxo*      One of the side effects of having a husband that regularly works overnight is being alone in bed at night.  Some evenings, I miss my Babe and can't wait until he's home.  I miss his warmness and being able to cuddle up to him. What I DON'T miss is Rich pushing his covers on top of me (he's

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The title of this post instantly brings to mind 2 thoughts: (1) Melanie Griffith on the SI Ferry, headed into NYC and (2) umm...shall we delicately say...a lady of the night?  Are prostitutes still called that? ANYway, I briefly was a Working Girl a few weeks ago, and I was neither Melanie Griffith nor a "professional" - though now that I think about it she did look pretty whorish in the scenes

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Soooo....it's been awhile since I've blogged.  I think of blogging often, but somehow get around to doing it less than I want to.  The December holiday craziness didn't help AT ALL, and thankfully that is over for another year.  As things were settling down, my Mac decided I wasn't going to blog for a little while longer, and followed through on that decision by blowing itself up.  On New Year's

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You thought this post was gonna be about some crazy pot-smoking related adventure, didn't you?  Sorry, wrong type of blog for that!  I almost titled this "One 'L' of a Cookie" - still confusing, right?  Let me explain... What I meant was - sometime in the week before Thanksgiving, we baked.  Chocolate chip cookies...er, I mean cookie. That's right.  I molded Luke a giant, massive, tremendous

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Sunny day fading into a darkening, chilly sky. Dog snoring on the couch. Baby cozying up to his beloved Pigeon (Bert from Sesame Street, for those of you unaware of my child's name for the bird-lover of the Street gang) in his crib, dreaming of our day spent at music class and the park.  Finally getting around to folding the 65 loads of clean laundry spread out all over the house.  Hubz safely on

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November is a tease. The beginning of the month brings us crisp, cool, sunny weather. Perfect, in my opinion. After a few days of this loveliness, November then kicks us in the balls here in New York by changing overnight into cold, rainy, nasty weather to remind us that winter is on its way...ugh.  It happened again this year. The past weekend and start of the week were fabulous.  Since I knew

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While we were on our patio, not one but two ladybugs landed near us. I love ladybugs, I consider them signs of good luck, and even have a ladybug tattoo. Luke was both fascinated and freaked out by them being so close to him.  (what a city boy I have!) There's one Watching her crawl on Dada Big Boy gathers the courage to have the ladybug crawl  "on my sleeve, not my hand" Yessir! We put

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On Monday we took advantage of being together on another glorious Autumn day and headed to a park near the Verrazano Bridge. My Cutie Lulie and Dada checking things out So...many...leaves!

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...yes, it's the obligatory introduction post. Hi there, I'm Michele, the Mother Lioness of my Pack; the only female in the house, God help me! My husband Rich is the Lion in these parts. We've been together for 6 years and live in Staten Island, NY.                    Looking good in blue!                 While planning our October 2006 wedding, we realized we had a very special guest

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1st post from Momma Lioness...just a sign of things to come. Welcome!

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