Julie Lyles Carr

(From the Octamom Archives…this originally posted November 2,2007) I thought it was over. I really did. I thought we had navigated the parasite seas and had calmed the waves. I thought wrong. Our ongoing psychosomatic tapeworm infestation with 5 of 8 flared again in full obsessive-compulsive glory while visiting family in Oklahoma for my father-in-law’s 70th birthday. While enjoying a…
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(From the Octamom Archives…originally posted August 13, 2008) I got ready to head out the door to run a few errands, a rare event that typically takes place in between nursing the twins and bossing around everybody else. The big sisters were available to babysit and so I was able to get in a little peace and quiet as I…
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(From the Octamom Archives…this originally posted October 24, 2007) Oh, the things we innocently wander into as parents…like when we said yes to purchasing the ‘Bathtub Time Crayons”, never dreaming that it would lead to having to re-grout the tile. Like the time we adopted the cat who then revealed that she had some kind of exotic and unpleasant intestinal…
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You do all know I love ya, right? Just think it’s a good thing to mention from time to time. Putting up a little something to share each day with you has become as much a part of my daily routine as my morning cup of coffee. And brushing my teeth. In some semblance of that order. And you should…
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“Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. 16 Tomorrow march down against them.” II Chron. 20:16-16 His name means ‘Jehovah judged’ or ‘judged by Jehovah’. And yet, we typically…
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