Category: Parenting
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60 in January.
The greatest moments my life are not only ones I’ve anticipated with great excitement, but also the spontaneous and unexpected. This winter has been full of them. If you’ve been a reader for any length of time, you know that I relish small moments. Sixty degree weather in January ranks. Taking off down the street…
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The Animal Doctor
The most fascinating thing about being a mom is watching personalities blossom. When both my babies were born, I fell immediately in love. I wasn’t sure what could top it. How could they possibly get any cuter than in that first 24 hours? What started out with unbelievably cute little everything, quickly turned into a…
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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…
Sunny&80 