All things toothsome
T.'s loose tooth is still hanging in there--practically by a thread. Since its appearance we have had many conversations about teeth, and the tooth fairy, and I used her loose tooth as a chance to pull...
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I have a running letter in my head I've been writing for years now, a letter to T. Almost every day I add a little to it—all the things I want to say to her and don’t, or can’t; or will, when the time...
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My littlest child, my last child, my youngest, is headed off to first grade today. All around the blogisphere this week, and next, moms and dads everywhere are surely writing...
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T. accomplished a huge milestone this weekend. For the first time ever she spent the night away from me. Even when she was six months old, and spent that first post-surgery night in the hospital PICU,...
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The day after L. was born, a kind and amazing nurse gave us a happy anniversary card. Inside it she wrote, Get used to the little guy always coming first because, of course, our wedding anniversary...
View ArticleTwo-wheeling
T. is on a mission these days to learn to ride her bicycle. Her best buddy A., who is five years old, just mastered his two-wheeler a couple of weeks ago, and T. feels left behind. The fact that she...
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T. is eight-years old today.Eight.It's a lovely number, rounded at the top, and rounded at the bottom. Turned on its side, the number eight becomes the infinity symbol, everlasting and perpetual.On...
View ArticleSweet success
T. had her first solo performance at school yesterday. She even slept in curlers the night before, so she could have real ringlets for the Big Day. Her class has been working on an "Expressions"...
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This post was first published in March, 2008. I love going back and reading through old "house" posts. They give me a chance to reclaim a lost part of myself, and my children's childhoods; plus, what...
View ArticleWho's Ready for Kindergarten? Not Me.
Fellow parents of soon–to-be-kindergartners, can we all just say it together now: HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?read more
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