18
Jun, 2013

When we first moved to town the boys had a preschool teacher who would regularly send home all their creations with a note attached: Parents,

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16
Jun, 2013

I can’t call it a coincidence because I know better, but Bennett leaves for sleep-away camp in a couple of hours and I’ve been doubled

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13
Jun, 2013

I’m packing the boys up for summer camp, which means the room that used to be my office now looks something like this: .. and

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6
Jun, 2013

I am a person of rules. That isn’t to say I’m a follower of other people’s rules. Quite the opposite. But I have a strange

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5
Jun, 2013

I do so this that nobody can fight over the pink one: Sometimes I am too clever for my own good.

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2
Jun, 2013

I have spent years in playgrounds biting my tongue each time I hear parents holler, “Good climbing!” and “Nice swinging!” to their kids. Aren’t children

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27
May, 2013

Spent the holiday weekend in Portland, vacationing with some friends and visiting with M’s grandmother. God should really grant me a very long life,  because

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21
May, 2013

I’ve often watched my patient, calm, friends lose it with their kids and frankly, there are few things I enjoy watching more. Me, if I

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18
May, 2013

Took the boys for much-needed haircuts last week. Haircuts are especially necessary because they are the one time I know that some form of soap

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12
May, 2013

M has been working in the coupon space for a while now, and I thought I’d gotten used to him bringing his work home with

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