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Aug, 2018

I am traveling. M is with me. I’m going to spare you details and annoying pics (because, why?), but I’ll share my current revelation: I

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26
Jul, 2017

I was supposed to have one full day this summer – one full day with no children. Four finally shipped off to camp yesterday and

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3
Jul, 2017

Once you’ve packed what you think are the entire contents of your home, the second step of summer road tripping (if you survived the car

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10
Jul, 2016

Facebookers, I see your happy family vacation pics and I raise you two: cleaning puke off a car seat and watching as two guys try

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29
Jun, 2016

One summer, a few years ago, I had the rather lofty goal of teaching my kids to load their breakfast dishes into the dishwasher. I

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28
Jun, 2016

Summer means lots of things to me but mostly it means a complete lack of personal space. My home office, once a sanctuary of occasional

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21
Jun, 2016

Yesterday was the first day of summer and also the first day of summer vacation. Already, I am finding crap like this happening in my

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3
Sep, 2014

This time last summer we had moved cross country. At some point I realized that the entire move was fueled by a combination of a

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28
Aug, 2014

On Wednesday of this week I hit the Wall, the Wall of exhaustion, hunger, dehydration, housework, meal-making, snack-making, fight-breaking, and sheer fedupness that is summer.

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25
Aug, 2014

We are all here in the house now. Everyone is home and all the beds have been assembled, so people even have a place to

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