august in review

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Yes. I’m writing again. We’ve been so busy, tired, hot, but mostly just busy this last month. Honestly, I’m glad that August is over.  I...

a transition

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This last week, it seems that Liam has officially crossed the bridge taking him from the ephemeral days of baby-dom into destined boyhood. We’ve seen glimpses...

an animal petting party

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As aforementioned, we went to Austin last weekend to celebrate our niece/cousin Ella’s third birthday (early — since they’re moving). By no understatement, the party was crazy....

laissez-faire

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I have been followed by the lingering smell of urine all day today. It seems that no matter where I traverse within my home or...

a preemptive defense

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“[Mom] also drove my sisters and myself crazy by folding the most personal moments of our childhood lives into her talks as further illustrations of...

it’s a cruel, cruel summer

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I’m going to reengage and confess that I’ve been a b*tch this last week. We all have — well, carried some form of the attitude anyway. Or...

mini-reads

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So in this all-knowing-self-help-reference-book age of parenting, most of us realize how valuable it is to read to our kids and for our kids to spend time “reading” to...

cuatro.

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we’re not gonna take it

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Today the boys decided to have their “boy’s club” again and locked Blythe out of their room: “she’s always jacking with [their] stuff.” Normally, I...

happy father’s day

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“It was times like this when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who...