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About Lori Finding Joy

Native Mainer. Compulsive knitter. Occasional writer. Bird watcher, star gazer, window dreamer. Mom.

Political Rant Ahead.

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Lori Finding Joy

I’ve spent this week disassociating by binge-watching House and eating Trader Joe’s peanut butter cups and knitting. I sort of knew the onslaught would come, but I didn’t anticipate things like emails from our school department alerting us that ICE … Continue reading →

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Finally.

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Lori Finding Joy

This past week we finalized the adoption of our 6 year old foster daughter. It was simultaneously joyous and sad; I love that she is officially part of our family now but I hate everything she went through to get … Continue reading →

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Errands and Messes

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Lori Finding Joy

I had planned on making some baked stuffed french toast for New Year’s day breakfast, but life happened and I finally made it yesterday afternoon – and baked it off this morning. It wound up being delicious and it’s all … Continue reading →

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New Year

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Lori Finding Joy

First: we survived Christmas, Elf and all, and although at one point the 7 year old had a meltdown and declared it THE WORST CHRISTMAS EVER (because she opened a box of clothes I bought her), it was a pretty … Continue reading →

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‘Tis the Season (of elves and tantrums and ghosts of dishes past)

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Lori Finding Joy

The Christmas season is ramping up at our house, albeit a lot more slowly this year. Having a one-year old in the house means we have to be much more thoughtful about decorations, for one thing, and for another we … Continue reading →

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Thursday Random Miscellany

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Lori Finding Joy

Happening: Today I had to go to the DMV to renew my license, which had expired six months ago. The sad thing is that I didn’t even realize it – I had to take the girls to urgent care a … Continue reading →

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Catching Up

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Lori Finding Joy

Are blogs even a thing anymore? It’s been 4 1/2 years since I’ve posted anything here, and unbelievably 9 years since we said goodbye to my father. His last words to me were “you need to write a book”, and … Continue reading →

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Vampires on my Mind…

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Lori Finding Joy

Well, we managed to escape/survive our first known COVID exposure.  O’s daycare had several cases, and we’ve had to quarantine.  I was shocked when our tests came back as negative, because I have literally seen those kids lick each other, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Miscellany

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Lori Finding Joy

1) I finally was able to finish watching Hamilton this afternoon, and while I’m glad duels have gone out of style, were they to ever come back this will be the week. Good gracious me. 2) Today we started transitioning … Continue reading →

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Where’d the Time Go?

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Lori Finding Joy

Let’s catch up, shall we? The “baby” is now three and a half, full of spitfire and opinions and moods.  Her hair is still as red as ever, though it lightened up a lot this summer. Her eyes have gone … Continue reading →

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