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Article 9
I don’t have a specific agenda today. I just wanted to show up, in part because I was struck this morning–for no particular reason–by my die-hard readers who show up themselves from time to time just...
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Article 8
Once upon a time, before the boy, I lived on a country road just outside a medium-sized town in Western Pennsylvania. Our family lived on an acre of land–huge-seeming to a child–with two maples, a...
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Thanksgiving.
SIXTEEN persons, SIX (J, J, L, C, E, S) of them under seven, five of those six mobile, under one roof. I somehow find myself simultaneously glad for just my one and longing for many more. Happy...
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Parenting Revamp
The last ten months of life with the Snapper have been extremely trying. Last June, just as we were being hit by the flood, he hit 18 months, or rather 18 months hit us. He began tantruming hard,...
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Success, so far.
We had a nice day today. We started with Circle Time, which the Snapper just LOVED, then had a snack and free play. He chose to color the majority of the time. Then we had our “music lesson,” which...
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Art Day, with Tantrums
First it was the battle over changing his pull-up before nursing; then over helping make pancakes (he declared the dry ingredients he was stirring “mine,” screaming); what to have for lunch; what to...
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Friday Preschool at Home; the Garden
Yesterday was language development day. After a successful attempt at getting the Snapper dressed without a fuss–victory is mine!–taking a stroller ride to KMart for laundry detergent, and some...
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It’s only been a year
and now it’s safe to be sad. I’m glad, though, that the house on the rock stood firm…
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Struggles
We’ve had our desktop PC in a closet for a year (boring reasons) and have recently set it up again. All of the sudden my old tabs and bookmarks are up again, and I kind of feel like blogging again....
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