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When I Wasn’t Here

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 1 Comment

I wasn’t here much last week. Instead I was dying in bed. Luckily, I was scheduled to be other places on the world wide web, so no one had to miss me. (I ...

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A Fairy Tale

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Mrs Gray / 2 Comments

I commented a week or so ago that Baby Gray would likely not go to kindergarten sleeping with his paci. He only had (notice that’s in past tense!) it in h...

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Cut it Out!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Mrs Gray / 0 Comment

This week, we embarked on a new, albeit quite scary, adventure.  When I put Baby Gray in the car, he grabbed his pacifier like normal, only to find it was ...

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Rule of Thumb

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Mrs Gray / 2 Comments

Baby Gray entered this world ready to suck his thumb. I had to plead with the nurses to let me give this breastfed baby a pacifier before he was two weeks old (...

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Baby Gray’s Got Talent

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Mrs Gray / 0 Comment

Baby Gray hit the ground with fingers in his mouth! I asked for a pacifier immediately to start fighting that habit–I can throw the paci away when I’...

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There were days I wondered if he’d ever start pl There were days I wondered if he’d ever start playing to win. Now look at him: sheathing his sword on strike three. 😂
Baseball weekends are the best weekends. Lessons Baseball weekends are the best weekends.

Lessons learned. Memories made. Work put in.

Baseball is a big part of our story, and we are so glad to be able to share it with the boy.
All the Mother’s Day things—grateful for my mo All the Mother’s Day things—grateful for my mom and the ones who call me mom and the places I get to fill in the gaps and the hurt and the waiting and the in between. 

It’s a day of balance and challenge and so many emotions and thoughts. Where ever you fall on the Mother’s Day spectrum, I hope your day was just what you needed.
From band to the baseball field and back again. B From band to the baseball field and back again.

Big day yesterday with 1s in both band competitions and a 2-0 day on the field. 

Today didn’t go the way we wanted on the diamond, but that’s a big part of the game.

I don’t want to remove the failure because it’s part of life. It’s what helps us grow. We don’t grow when life is easy and comfortable. Growth comes from working through the hard and getting better—not just in baseball but in life. 

Full disclosure: it is a lot more fun when we win, though. 🙃 Grateful for these boys and this team to grow with.
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