In the midst of reminiscing about where we were a year ago, more than just the season has me feeling reflective. Zach was contacted by a job recruiter a few weeks ago and as a result he sent his resume out to a few additional companies. He is now interviewing with several companies in different [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Kathleen
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My dear grandmother died. I still miss her a lot. My family has been honoring her this month by writing about her in our family blog. For those who knew her (or any who wish they did), you can read what we’ve written so far here.
Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Kathleen
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(Here’s another cross post. Our assignment for the Cochran family blog is to write about the first time we moved out so I thought I’d post a copy here as well).
I moved out for the first time about two weeks after I graduated from High school. I packed my bags and flew to Utah for [...]
Posted on May 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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My mom is the one who gets credit for naming this one, for those who don’t know, my maiden name is Bird. It started out that Sarah wanted a chance to see as many sibs as she could while she was visiting with her family from Oregon and it ended up that all of my [...]
Posted on May 26th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I get very impatient to get everything cleaned up and back to normal after a trip and today as I sat in my chair feeding Ila, I was surrounded by a mess of suitcases and laundry. I felt overwhelmed and stressed and I thought of this analogy for how I felt.
It was like I [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Some days seem to be filled with these impossible moments where I just can’t physically do everything that I have to do at that moment or multiple things go wrong at the same time. In my head I’ll despair a little and sometimes leap to the worst case scenario, before collecting my thoughts and moving [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I used to hate it when people would wish me a happy mother’s day before I was a mom, but it wasn’t because I was frustrated by our inability to conceive. Mother’s day was still about celebrating my own mother. I was never offended or hurt by the holiday and I was annoyed when [...]
Posted on May 8th, 2010 by Kathleen
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When we were kids, my mom did lots of little things to make our birthdays great. It was like the whole day was a celebration. We got to sit in the front seat and mom would fix our favorite food for dinner. I try to do the same thing for my kids, so I [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2010 by Kathleen
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We have an assignment to write about our memories of elementary school for our Cochran Family Blog so I dug up this post which it turns out I wrote, but never published. I had my mother send some elementary school pictures to go with them. For some reason, I thought that would be a nice [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I get this question regularly. The short answer is that I just don’t sleep, at least not much. For the long answer, click read more.
Posted on April 17th, 2010 by Kathleen
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It’s funny how reading something sometimes reminds you of things that you might not have recalled on your own. I was reading a post by my mother-in-law about her mother (Zach’s Grandma) and it reminded me of the aprons we had as children. I remember me and Barb having aprons with our names sewn [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I think my favorite treat as a child was homemade fruit leather. Both my mom and my Grandma O’Bryant made it. I remember them making it in strawberry and in raspberry. I loved the flavor and the texture of it and I never thought I got enough of it.
Posted on March 10th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Since moving to Tennessee and adding one more child, I’ve noticed some changes in how the kids relate to each other.
Isaac and Charlotte still get along very well and play together all the time. It seems like they’ve been conspiring more and getting into more trouble since the move, but maybe I just think that [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2010 by Kathleen
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There were eight people (6 kids, 2 adults) in my family growing up, but most vans only had seat belts for 7 so space was always an issue. A car top carrier seemed like the perfect solution for baggage and it worked ok for us for a little while. The straps would make this [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I find myself with very little time during the day to spend one on one with my children, so I do my best to take advantage of any extra moments throughout the day. I do things like play games with them while we wait in the grocery store line or at the doctor’s office and [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I started writing my personal history on this blog, I’m far from finished, but I can’t seem to find the time to sit and write for an hour so perhaps I’ll write a few memories here and there and later compose them into my history.
My family didn’t take a lot of family vacations that [...]
Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Kathleen
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So I had this idea today that I ought to write down what a day in my life is like right now. I think I’ll look back one day and wonder how I did it, because there are days now when I wonder how I managed to make it through the day only to wake [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Kathleen
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I’ve wanted to go see my grandmother’s house since moving to Knoxville a few months ago, but I didn’t want to go alone so I waited until my sister Krista could come with me.
This is what the house used to look like and except for the fact that there were a lot more trees [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I know you didn’t love your name, but that’s because to you it was just a name. To me it is the feeling of love that I felt when I was with you.
It’s a reminder of a great woman who I loved and admired. Who showed strength in motherhood through sorrows and [...]
Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Kathleen
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DAY 9: On Wednesday we set off for Knoxville. It was a long crowded ride in my mother’s Tribeca, but the kids behaved well and the trip was uneventful. We stopped for lunch at Wendy’s and Nicole enjoyed dancing to the music and making faces with my mother. She was in such a funny [...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 by Kathleen
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