Mom? Playdate? Mom?
Charlotte has the much smaller of the kids’ rooms. This has meant that it gets messy much more rapidly, looks messy with a lot less stuff out, and generally has been a struggle to keep tidy. I’ve told...
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Two days after Will’s Knife Incident (as it has come to be called around here), Owen sat Charlotte down for her daily post-camp Tick Check. “Hey,” he said. “Is this a tick nymph?” No. It was not. It’s...
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What We Did On Our Summer Vacation…
In the “Catching up with what I skipped” category: After both attempts at briefer summer getaways were complicated by the grantwriting cycle this summer, we finally got away for a full week-plus at the...
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It’s Charlotte’s godmother’s birthday today, and earlier this week her husband asked if we could babysit tonight so that they could go out for a nice grownup dinner. I was glad to oblige. Marjie is...
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Those Who Have Gone Before
The doors in this house are all original. Fortunately, no one ever took it upon themselves to cover them with lovely 1950s lead-based paints; they’re naked wood, though hollow and not particularly...
View ArticleEmbarrassment of Wishes
Having worried about getting Charlotte a Good Present for Christmas this year, Owen and I decided to get her going on what she might be wishing for over dinner last night. It took a few minutes to get...
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Charlotte, while putting together her Christmas wishlist, explained: “Well, because penguins are my favorite animals. Except for werewolves. Those are my favorite, so penguins are my second favorite.”
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First Day of Spring
Okay, I’m not sure how it happened that it is suddenly March — and not just the beginning of March, either. But here we are. Having not finished blogging our Niagara trip last summer, I now have not...
View Article“As you wish”
We finally had a Family Movie Night and all watched The Princess Bride together. It took a bit of convincing Will to try it. “Princesses? Really? Why?” It was, actually, a lot like the grandfather in...
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Up to Eleven
Will turned eleven today. As we could not come to agreement on party plans, we’re putting off Friends Day until next weekend. But we always have a special family day of some kind. Today started with...
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