Julie Lyles Carr

You would think we had learned. It’s that newest oldest winter/spring tradition, that mid-seasonal madness when the freneticism of the holidays is just an air-brushed memory glossing over the promises to make the next few weeks calmer. It’s a sort of sports amnesia, when you forget that the children are already involved in plenty of activities, none of them seeming…
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I watched with great pride tonight as one of my former college friends/co-teachers at preschool made her debut on Donnie Deutch “The Big Idea”. Shannon Wilburn and her friend Davin Tackett started a consignment sale 11 years ago called Just Between Friends–my youngest is now presently wearing a couple of items I bought at that sale! (Needless to say, I…
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Every now and then I have a Mommy Idea, a thought that is so revolutionary to the way we live our family lifestyle that I stun myself with my own brilliance–followed by being stunned that it has taken me so long to figure out this new innovation. I offer Exhibit A: I am an avid coffee swiller–I drink coffee constantly,…
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Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:31:00 +0000julielylescarr

1 of 8 is an individual who provides us with numerous laughs and guffaws and has right from the start. She defies the ‘oldest child’ stereotype; she is responsible and does have a sense of leadership for the crew, but does not suffer from the angst, over-achievement and control issues that some associate with being the oldest child. Of course,…
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