children

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olive | Every morning you brush your hair and tie it up on your own. Sometimes you ask to wear lip gloss, and when I tell you no, you respond, “but you do!” as if
cooking with my children
Early last week, the girls and I baked cookies together before bedtime. It was a necessary therapy following several days of harrowed conflict and petty arguments between them, not to mention my own exhaustion having
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14 | What does courage mean? Can you think of a time when you had to be really courageous? olive | It was brave when I slept without my blanket and when I stopped sucking my
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Time always moves faster than we expect. Like fishing with bare hands, I often grasp at it, trying to hold still all that is so slippery and wild. More pictures. More words. More to remember
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11 | What was the most interesting thing you learned this week? olive | Learning how to tie my shoes! | We’ve had so much rain the last two months. Our yard has been more
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10 | What is your favorite part about Spring?  olive | I love that we can play outside again without blankets or coats! | I cried on the day you were born, partly out of physical
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09 | If you could be any character in a book, who would you be? Why? olive | WonderWoman in the comic books because she’s so strong and has an invisible jet.  |  When a
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week 08 | what do you love most about homeschooling? more specifically? olive | I love reading activities and playing dress-up. (That part about the reading isn’t always true.)  Most days you flit around our home
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07 | What do you hope to be when you grow up?   olive, 5 | I either want to be an artist, a dancer, or a pizza girl. | This week I found you playing