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    left knee surgery runs in the family

    Did you know that Mr. M and I have both had our left knees reconstructed? Miss L doesn’t think our scars are strange, since we both share them in the same place, and instead considers poking them a silly game.…

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    yee-haw: a football trip to Dallas

    The day the 2014 UCLA football schedule was set in stone, my mom called me with a little bit of excitement. “Did you see which game is on my birthday weekend? Let’s go!” Our previous mother-daughter UCLA football trip had…

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    a farmer and her dog

    A few weeks ago, Farmer L got impatient with her sprouts in the garden and decided to pull up her first carrot of the season. She proudly came in the house and showed it off to everyone and agreed to…

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    #070707 7 years later

    7 years ago today on 07/07/07, this happened… Here’s to 7 wonderful years… and so many more happy anniversaries down the road! [All the wedding details you can be found here]

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    my extraordinary kid

    Over the past four years of motherhood, I’ve realized something that’s pretty remarkable. Miss L is an extraordinary kid. And we’re not talking about her getting a PhD at age 5 extraordinary, but in that every day way that is…