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A Year of Dates #3: Playing Tourist in Our Own Town
I realize I’ve been rather remiss in updating the blog posts about the Best Gift Ever (from the Best Mom Ever – that’d be mine): a Year of Dates for my husband and me to enjoy, once a month for …...
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They Left on a Jet Plane…
And they took my heart with them. Actually, they took two pieces of my heart with them… Two important pieces. And they actually smiled while doing so… That’s right. My amazing hubby and my adorable 9yo...
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Sanity is Totally Overrated
I am not kidding: put me in a straightjacket. This house is now, officially, a loony bin. Not that you didn’t know already that our family was crazy, but after the decision Bill and I made the other...
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The Case of the Missing Tooth
So, the 6yo lost his third tooth six nights ago… And the very next day, he managed to lose it all over again. (I swear, is it only in MY family who can actually lose the same tooth TWICE?!) Okay, …...
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Seeing Stars
Like any good parent, I believe my children are exceptional. Sometimes they’re exceptional troublemakers, but for the most part, they blow me away with their never-ending curiosity, their intuitive...
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School Daze
My head has been in a total fog all day… I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around the fact that my youngest child just started school. Okay, granted, it’s just preschool, and it’s only two mornings a...
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Cooking Lessons
Back in December, the week before winter break, the 10yo decided to start cooking the family dinners. I know! My eyes totally bugged out of my head, too!! Intriguingly, she came up with the idea all on...
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Lactose Intolerance
On the evening of Saturday, January 12, 2013 (the date will live in infamy, at least in the blackest part of my soul), while I was clearing the dinner table and Bill was reviewing the pictures he’d...
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Planning For Paris: Lessons From Iceland (Part 1)
Holy WOW. I did it. Last week I booked two round-trip tickets for Paris! In slightly less than three months my 10yo daughter and I are leaving for Paris. Yes, PARIS. Paris, FRANCE. !!!!! (Ooh, sorry…...
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Planning for Paris: Lessons From Iceland (Part 2)
Lesson One: Context is Critical Everything One of the more important lessons Bill learned about traveling with kids (or at least traveling with our kids, or maybe just traveling with our ONE kid, but...
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Calgon, Take Me Away!
After a hard day of working in the garden, and basically rubbing the entire backyard ON HIS FACE (at least half of which he kindly wiped off on his sleeve by this time), the 2yo totally deserved (and...
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Planning for Paris: Lessons From Iceland (Part 3)
Traveling with Kids, Lesson Two: Wherever You Go, There They Are As parents of three kids, my husband and I sometimes fall into the bad habit of thinking that taking care of just one of our kids...
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Cuttin’ Loose
My 10yo daughter has been badgering me to let her cut her hair for nearly a year now, and I just kept putting it off… and putting it off… and putting it off… I don’t know why I kept putting … Continue...
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The Portrait of the Artist as a Two Year Old
So… the 2yo decided to do some drawing… on the DOOR OF MY CAR. With a ROCK. I believe he drew a duck, but my little Picasso is all about the abstract these days so perhaps it’s open to interpretation....
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Birthday Wishes
Happy 3rd birthday to this little guy! May he always greet the world with such sweet innocence and wide-eyed curiosity. And may next year he pick a MUCH easier cake for me to make… because I’m not sure...
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Planning for Paris: Lessons From Iceland (Part 4)
Traveling with Kids, Lesson Three: Scale Back, Stay Longer (Part 4) I confess that, at first, I was a bit jealous that it was Bill, and not me, who got to be the first parent to pack a bag, flash …...
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MVP
As voted on by her (beloved) teammates and coaches, my (adorable and sassy) little Lyka Livewire was just named MVP (!!!!) of her roller derby team this season (!!!!) at their end-of-the-season award...
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All Smiles
Happy happy happy birthday to this adorable little kiddo (with the sweetest disposition, kindest eyes, most kissable freckles, and cutest dang toothless-wonder smile ever) who turns SEVEN today. May...
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The Big Reveal
Though not nearly as dramatic as his sister’s big chop, today Liam decided it was finally time to cut off his own curly locks (and, in the process, give up his only-recently-won title of Person With...
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Like a Boss
First day of full-time preschool at the Montessori where his two big siblings attended… He walked in like a boss. I’m still sitting in the car, bawling like a baby.
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