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For those of you that still come here ... maybe someday I'll be able to maintain two blogs. But for now, please click on over to my main blog about the The FarmHouse Kids and my life.www.thesiekmantriplets.blogspot.comThanks for visiting!Tanya

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Meet Emma, Nate and Ali of The Holsey Triplets. Here's a little peek at three very cute little turdlets. I think they are just the sweetest littles I've seen in a long time. Their Momma hasn't seen this picture yet ... she was praying for just "one" good one of them together.Honestly, this is the only one of them sitting together. They're fifteen months old and very much on the go! As soon as

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Meet my sister Kim, and her daughter Erin. Say hello everyone. Today we had a Bridal luncheon for my niece Tory. Kim and I, along with my other two sisters, Robin and April hosted the whole she-bang. It was a great success and lots of fun. Loads of food, lots of laughs and a few tears. It was a recipe for happiness on a beautiful sunny day!As I was driving home this evening .. it dawned on

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Wow ... It's 4:43 am and we just had a doozie of a Earthquake. Our house swayed and things shook for what seemed like forever. It was as if things were rolling, and the sound is what woke me up.The odd thing is, that we live by a coalmine and when they blast, we feel things shake at times, but this wasn't the coalmine. I remember the last Earthquake about twenty years ago, and this was quite a

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Okay Folks, Mom's Birthday was a month ago ... what can I say? I love my Mom and thought I'd dedicate a whole month in her honor! Do you believe that?Just don't tell my Dad that I missed his birthday, which was exactly one week after Mom's. I even have it drafted. Should I go ahead and post it, or save it for Father's Day?So from this day forth ... I will try to update this blog as often as

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Today is my Mother's Birthday. She's only eighteen years older than I am. Sixty-Nine. I have a young Mother. In saying that, here are a few things I remember about my Mother when I was young.She had a pair of high-heel black "go-go" boots. I thought they were the coolest things! Now I can't imagine my Mom wearing those boots. Wonder if she thought they were cool too?She wore "mini-skirts"

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Just thought I'd let everyone that reads here know that I'm okay.The surgery wasn't that bad. I slept all the way to Indy and all the way back. That must have been a long boring trip for Von.They removed the lump and sent it off for pathology. I'll hear a week from this coming Monday. But the Surgeon says it looks great and she's positive it is nothing to worry about. So I've decided to not

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I'm having surgery in the morning. Even though I know I'm okay, I'm still scared.I think it's just human nature to be scared, or to think the worst. How do you go into a surgery that could be life changing and not have fears? Here I sit at 1:00 am, worried and thinking about my kids, and I have to leave in four hours, and we have a long drive ahead of us. .... and I still have to sleep.I'm

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Juli has been in Tacoma, Washington all week visiting her best friend Mandy. Mandy is in the Army and will be deploying to Iraq soon for the third time, and Juli went out to spend some time with her before she goes.Fifty years ago, I was in Tacoma. Although I don't remember being born there and traveling home to Illinois when I was one year old, it's kind of neat that Juli is there now. She'll

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My children are napping and I've had a long soak in the tub, and decided that I needed to do a little cleaning and reorganizing. So I began to go through all the little shoes here in the basket by the back door. There are way too many pairs for three little kids. So sorted and bagged they are, and we're less 18 shoes now. That's single shoes, not pairs. But it is nine pair, which is too many

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Well, not the whole house. Just me. For the past few days I've been getting sicker and sicker and thought I had the flu. What started out as the flu ended up as Pneumonia.This morning I was so sick I couldn't hardly breathe or get out of bed. ... and I landed on the doorstep of my Doctor around noon. One look at my hot raging self with a 103. degree temperature and a listen to my lungs, she

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I was reading over at Just a Mom a few minutes ago when I should have been in bed. She inspires me so much. She is so caring and giving of herself to others, and is always doing something for others ... so I made a little "blog bling" for her to wear and to pass on.I'm serious when I say that this woman is "super-woman" and a great quilter to boot! I miss talking to you Jaye. Go visit Jaye

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NOTICE: The Memorial Blog for Thrice Blessed Momma is now receiving comments.Thrice Blessed Momma (Helena Kemp) was a blogging friend of mine. I never met her in person, but I met her many times here on my blog, or hers ... or late night telephone calls. We laughed a lot and we built each other up with our triplet stories. See, she too had triplets. Hers will be six years old on March 14th, and

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Finally. It's been seven weeks today. A long time, but he came home today. He's gained over two pounds and has grown two inches while in the hospital.I got to be there to take pictures of him getting dressed to come home, and we posed him, and propped him until he decided that he didn't like it. His little preemie outfits fit him so perfectly ... but he won't be wearing them long! It was a

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Carter is coming home Tuesday. Tomorrow I will be taking pictures of him for the last time in the hospital. This picture was taken Thursday. He no longer has a NG tube. He is taking all bottles like he's starving! He is on NO monitors and is doing fantastic. He even has "fat rolls." All five pounds of him. He's been there for almost seven weeks.He has a very busy busy day planned for

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Yes, it glistens, and it's beautiful. But I hate it. We were buried for a few days in snow with ice on top. Everything was thick coated and very slick. Every single blade of grass and every single twig was icy. Including my house, and it's so cold here! The ice was so thick that it coated the satellite receiver for my internet and I lost my window to the world for a few days. That was hard. So

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Her name was Ruth Hedge. She was my Grandmother, and the woman that taught me about God, and about being humble and gentle and kind. She lived her life by a motto, and taught me to live mine the same way: to always give more than you take, and to always love.My Mother and Father built a house across the road from my Grandparents on a lot where an old house used to be. It was buried to make way

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We've had a set-back. Carter was doing so well, with no problems what so ever. Just a "feeder and grower" and waiting to get big enough to come home.Thursday evening, they had decided that he was doing well enough to take a bottle every feeding instead of every other. He still was having a bit of a problem maintaining his body heat in an open crib, and that takes a lot of energy for preemies

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It's not really a name. Not a legal name anyway .... but it was known by all, in the little Illinois town I grew up in.Five houses and an old shack stood this side of the levee. A small self-ordained community, and everyone was related. I spent a lot of time there while growing up. My Grandparents lived in one of the little houses there.My Grandfather came there from Arkansas as a little boy

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Yesterday Joey came home from college for a few days .... and we went to visit Carter. This was Joey's first time to see the guy that was named after him.Joey held him and loved him and touched him so carefully. Then Carter stretched his hand out towards Joey's. I know Joey was praying for him, and I think Carter knew it when he put his hand in Joey's hand.Joey is Carter's Uncle, and Carter

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This evening I visited my man again. I met Carter's Mommy, Amy, at the hospital before I left town today so I could take a few pictures of her feeding him a bottle for the first time. He sucked it right down without any drops in his heartrate, and did just fine.Here's a happy Mommy getting to hold him after his bottle.Hasn't he changed? .... and grown? He's a little doll. Well .... isn't he?

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Okay everyone getting your singing shoes on .... it's Delurk time, and time to say Happy Birthday to my little Sis .... April. She reads here, so everyone sing the "HB" song in the comments! Please ... just a little bit?I have to tell you .... she's 44 today! She thought she was 45 until my sister Robin told her to figure up the years ... talk about fast aging! See what happens when you enjoy

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Click here to read the beginning ....I loved my Grandma Imo. To a little girl who was in awe of this woman, that brought gifts and stories and lots of love from far away .... getting to visit her, and have her to myself was the best thing in the world to me. The summer I was eleven, for two weeks, I stayed with my Grandmother in Peoria. It was so exciting, and I remember looking forward to it for

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Yesterday while at work, I was gossiping and laughing with a group of women nurses about silly little things .... and one of them said, "Dr. Phil said that "we women" should always make ourselves look very pleasing to our men."I thought about that ... and yes, I agree to a certain point. I'm sure Marlboro Man would love to see me in a stretchy tight little butt huggin' outfit with my boobs

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One summer when I was eleven, I went to visit my Grandmother in Peoria, Illinois. I got to go by myself, without any sisters or my brother. Just me and my Grandma. I thought I was special, and I learned a lot of things in that two week period. Things that molded me and things I'll carry with me all of my life.I loved my Grandma Imo. To a little girl who was in awe of this woman, that brought

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