Month: January 2012
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Sibling Rivalry
…And so it begins. Sibling rivalry. I have fresh memories of my siblings and our squabbles growing up. Most of them ended in my brother tattling, “Mom! The girls are teaming up on me!!!” My personal favorite is finding out as a grown adult that my little sister WAS, in fact, stealing my clothes…I just…
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Rainboots.
January. Usually the dead of winter is time to go sledding, build snowmen, attack each other with snowballs in snow forts, dress in 16 layers of bulky winter gear to play outside… This January, the snow boots that I so diligently door-busted at the end of last winter have often been shelved for rain boots. …
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Pigtails.
There’s something about a little one-year-old in pigtails that melts my heart. Especially, when they’re my own little girls. I remember the first time I could pull all the tiny strands of my first born’s hair back into two little piggie’s. I was on a mission to conceal the natural mullet that her hair insisted…
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The Sled Ride
It went about as bad as it could go. Twenty degrees before the breeze coming off the lake, and all my two tots want to do is go out in play in it. Half-way through January and it finally snowed enough to cover the grass. Here we go. The morning the ‘winter storm’ made its…
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“Thank You!”
It’s my one-year-old’s favorite phrase of the week. “Dink! Dink! Thank you!” “Pee pee! Pee pee! Thank you!” “Nina! Nina! Thank you!” She doesn’t wait for me to complete her request first. No. She automatically assumes I’m going to give her what she wants within the following 10 seconds or less, thus thanking me in…
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