Blacksheep Speaks

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It has been exactly one year today since Mollie Elisabeth came into this world. She has been here with me every single day of her life and I still can’t believe a whole year has passed. Teething, learning to walk, planning for her future, searching through life insurance comparison charts with her in mind, helping her learn to talk, it has all happened or is happening, and it still seems like yesterday when we brought her home with us. Gifted as she is, she can’t yet read this birthday wish… but someday she will, so… happy birthday, Mollie Beth. We love you.

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Since her operation, my daughter has not been wasting her time. She has finished all the homework the teachers gave her, read a few books, and then read a few things to me as well, whether I wanted to hear them or not (I made the mistake of saying that I didn’t know what ma huang was and got quite a lecture). She even found the time to paint a ceiling tile for the school’s library. Her dragon looks identical to the one on the book that the tile is supposed to represent, and we are very proud of her talent!

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There has been one interesting side effect of my daughter’s operation. Always before she was self conscious and didn’t want people to look at her. Now, she seems to have done a complete turn around. It’s nice seeing her begin to have a little more confidence and self assurance. She has always been pretty, but she never believed that. Since the operation, she has even stopped reading weight loss supplement reviews, since her so called fat tummy disappeared when her back straightened out. I am amazed at the change in her, I really am.

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It’s been a bit difficult fitting in anything business related in the last couple weeks. This being MY life, means nothing is simple. My daughter’s operation, thankfully. went off without a hitch. However, trying to find a pharmacy on a Saturday that actually had the medications she needed added an extra hour to her travel time getting home… and yes, they insisted on releasing her on a weekend without giving her the medication to see her through Monday. And, to complicate matters, when she left the hospital, everything and everyone was fine, but between when she left there and when she got home, literally half of my household came down with the flu. In the end, she was the only one who did NOT get it. So, between distributing chicken broth and doling out Tylenol, it’s been pretty hard concentrating on Total Merchant Services. Maybe things will slow down a bit this week!

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Yesterday was not easy. It was my sister’s birthday. Under normal circumstances, our family would gather, there would be the usual presents and cake, and my husband would make way too much use of his trusty Canon camera, ensuring an overabundance of photos that no one is going to be able to identify in two years. But not this year. This year, no one even knew what to say, and the whole family spent the day wondering what we should be saying. It’s been that way since December when my sister passed away. I wonder if things will ever be normal again.

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