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April 14, 2010

This is the Big Heart Show!

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……………..So Last week I decided to trash my big project, the Revolution of the Mommies,

well, there’s no use crying over spilled milk….

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When you’re a mommy it doesn’t matter!

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Just clean it up!

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This is the BIG HEART SHOW…!

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We’ll be walking around in daddy’s shoes….

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LOVE.

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It’s what we’re doin’ now.

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…….And no one’s going to mention the word “revolution,”

you know what people think of when they hear that word?

(ccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkk………..)

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Let’s look in!

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(Can you hear it beating? .. …bmp.bmp…..bmp. bmp.)

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And babies live here!

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Just a few short years ago Nathan *and* I decided to become parents.

Three years ago to be exact.

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We haven’t been married that long…

but in movie star marriage years, it’s like an eternity.

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And enough stuff has happened,

that we can talk about it.

So….Dim the lights!

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This story begins in Boston

with mommy and daddy.

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mommy had just moved from England to live closer to him,

because they were in love.

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They were the butterflies from the book “Hope for the Flowers” for Halloween that year…

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(he would even do that for her)

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Nathan rode his bike everywhere all the time,

even on snow days.

And he lived in a vegetarian co-op.

(Vegetarians are so

cooperative.)

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(And naturally eco-responsible)

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It was the year the Red Sox ended the curse…

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So much felt like a happy ending,

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but for us it was really only the start…

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of a big life together.

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And, we  of course thought…. if we had a family,  that our lives (as we knew them) would somehow be preserved.

But there’s just so much to do when you become a parent…it’s surprising.

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It’s not always as easy or glamorous….

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but two is better.

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twoisbetter

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This is the Big Heart Show,

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It is for daddy…

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and it’s definitely not perfect.

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…..but the Jukebox is Free!

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China–Tori Amos

~

lveo. peace!

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