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A few days ago, my daughter Janie walked into the kitchen, which my frantic holiday baking had turned into an indoor winter wonderland, covered in soft mounds of flour and dustings of sparkling sugar. "What are you making, Mama?" she asked.
"A pie for a potluck dinner with [...]
"Hey, let's go swimming!"
In his enthusiasm,
Austen tears off clothes.
He grabs his swim suit
and for the first time ever
puts it on himself.
He rushes outside,
swim trunks proudly on... Backwards.
Off we go, smiling.
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I was looking through Austen's school papers this week and found an exercise he had done describing what things would be like if he ruled the world. He had filled in blanks to complete several sentences, one of which read: "If I ruled [...]
Mama, play with me!Please, I want to play a game!Come on, let's play now!
No, you can't move that.Mama, that roll doesn't count.You go back to start.
Now blue skips a turn.Red gets to go twice today!Hurray, almost home!
Look! I rolled a... two?No, wait... Three? Try again... Ten!Yay, I win! I [...]
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In the year plus that I've been writing here, I've never been able to give my children pseudonyms. My husband and I named them with such love and care that it's hard for me to bring myself to call them anything but those precious real life names. Yet, I find I'm [...]
A moment alone!At last, I... Bathroom door creaks.Child appears. "Mama?"
I know my kids are not the only ones obsessed with the Nintendo's little overalled hero, so here's the latest Mario joke to come home from the playground. Since I've heard it repeated 10,000 times already and can't remove its presence from my head, I thought I might as well share:
"Knock knock."
"Who's there?"
"Yah [...]
After several days of being up too late, I decided to take advantage of my husband's weekend presence at home and send him out with the kids while I took a nap.
I fell into a light sleep, listening to the kids alternately giggling and bickering as they got ready to leave, then slipped into a [...]
Get kids out the door?Oh, given infinite time,it's not hard at all.
