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Parenting posts that include the touching, the embarrassing, the annoying, the typical, the atypical, the whatever. You just have to be a parent to get these.

When I was pregnant, I wondered what my boy would be like. Imagined what it would feel like to be a mom. It doesn’t feel like it’s been 11 years since I stared into his face thinking “I did this. We made him.” I marveled at the teeny-tiny fold right beneath his eyes, his perfect […]

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I don’t remember my 11th birthday in particular. It may have been lost in the years of my parents’ impending divorce, or swallowed by summer’s end, with school looming around the corner. I’m pretty sure I’ll always remember celebrating my son turning 11 this year. Celebrating 11 years old in a pandemic isn’t easy – […]

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How much is too much? How much is not enough? New Order sings “It’s never enough until your heart stops beating,” but what does that mean? I like to think it means we still have time, at least for now, to become more of who we’ve always wanted to be.  How Much Time Do We […]

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There’s magic in the number seven, and power in the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop’s seventh anniversary this very week (1). Maybe, hopefully, there’s even more magic and power today in being thankful as the world crumbles and awakens.   Lizzi was the hop’s original creator, as she’d begun practicing thinking of 10 things each […]

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Will this summer be weird? Definitely. Will it be wonderful? Here’s hoping. Now that school’s officially out, drive-by complete, and library books checked out months ago returned, I’m looking ahead at what in the world we’ll do to fill summer days this year while the coronavirus continues to float around.  There was cookie cake, and […]

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