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“Because I have kids.”
As I pulled the empty cereal bar box out of my refrigerator this morning while getting milk for my coffee, I realized that there are just some questions I’ve stopped asking because I already know the...
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One week
One week until school starts. I’ll have a 5th grader, 8th grader, 11th grader and college freshman. I’ve bought some paper, some pens, some pencils, and a couple notebooks, threw them at the older...
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“That time my child realized she was different…”
Has never happened. Not here. I know there are others who have had those moments, when their child realized they were different because of autism, Down Syndrome, missing limbs, skin conditions. But...
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Where are the siblings?
There’s a short mom behind those tall boys I know I blog mostly about Maura here. Mainly because she doesn’t care what I write about her. She doesn’t have a self-conscious bone in her body. Even...
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Why I can’t buy pomegranates
Many years ago, when the kids were shorter than me, I found a deal where I could get a box or two of organic fruit and veg delivered to my doorstep. We’d get exotic things, like kale, and pineapple....
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That time my teen lost her phone
This week brought terrible news – teen girl lost her phone. She didn’t know where it was. “Maybe I left it on the bus.” she said. “I know I didn’t take it to guitar lessons.” I tried calling it. It...
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My kids have had it lucky
Something on the internet caught my eye. It talked of a 1979 first grade readiness checklist – and how one of those things was “Can he travel alone in the neighborhood (four to eight blocks) to store,...
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Conversations with the teen girl
Our water line has decided to sprout yet another leak (because our house apparently hates us), so Josh turned off the water to save some money while we wait for the property manager to get someone out...
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Modern parenting: high school threat edition
In February, Josh and I got to go to Barcelona. My sister came to watch the kids, and we went off on our well-deserved holiday. My sister was fabulous, sending updates and pictures and texts about...
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Being crafty
So while wasting time perusing Pinterest, I came across this – linked on Pinterest from Delicious Designs My first thought was “Wow, that would be cute in the girls bathroom or the teen girl’s room!”...
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Anything can happen when you call me…
“I’m sorry, did you just tell your son not to lick the cat?” my friend Jen asked me once as I was babbling about something else. I paused. “Oh. Yeah. I guess I did.” Sean was a toddler, and going...
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A conversation about stuffed raccoons with my teen girl
First – did you know that the plural of raccoon isn’t raccoons? Or maybe spell check just never expected there to be more than one raccoon per sentence. Who knows? (ETA – spell check keeps red...
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Preview, teen years
This is the year of the switch-overs. My oldest will no longer be a teenager. My youngest will become a teenager. The oldest is showing some signs of maturity in more subtle ways, being more receptive...
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Financial planning lessons for the teen
So we didn’t win the Powerball billion. I’m very sad about that because I had plans to go all Oprah Winfrey giving away all the cash to everyone. Spread it around like manure and watching things grow,...
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It’s all in the delivery
Last night, we told Sean to grill the chicken breasts. Sean grabbed his jacket and headphones and put the chicken on the grill. Josh and I were entertaining Maura, who was asking for tickles. It was...
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Interwoven
Our household is an…..entertaining one. Well, it’ll keep you on your toes. Okay, it keeps me on my toes, and I’ve been dancing the dance for 20 years here. I joke that we’re a psych student’s dream,...
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And then, she was a horrible brat of a little sister – so, you know, typical
My own mother would tell how sometimes, she’d come home to us five kids, and someone would announce that no one got hurt and we cleaned it all up. Somehow our soothing teen words of assurance would...
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Love is patient
I take Maura out to Target, where she finds a big Ariel plus doll. She is thrilled. Ariel is her new friend. But once home, she starts whining because she can’t find the matching little plush Ariel...
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I made a Night Vale hat, and I’m not sure if it’s sanctioned by the Sheriff’s...
The good news is, it’s been three days and I’ve yet to see any hooded figures. Well, outside of the normal hooded figures that wander through the house eating food (aka, the resident teenagers.) Miriam...
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The Theme Song of the Mom of Teens cannot be played
Well, not over headphones Because teenagers steal headphones. So now, I’m listening to music on the $5 ear buds my husband bought four dozen of because headphones disappear faster than socks in a dryer...
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