This house is a mess. These clothes make me look terrible. I’m exhausted. These little yellow fireflies of negativity flit through my brain, coming and going throughout the day. I brush them absently away because I have more important things to do than address them: meals to make (though they are often uneaten), clothes to…
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Minus 7 In those days we were Just Friends. We met freshman year, before classes even began, waiting in line for an English class that I would end up dropping. But the boy who turned out to live upstairs from me was a keeper. The following summer we took our very first road trip together…
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A little over a year ago, we were given a choice of birthdays for Theo, since he refused to flip over and had to be delivered by c-section. They offered us July 8th as one of our options, but that is Sebastian’s birthday, so I vetoed it. I don’t really care for sharing things like…
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My children (courtesy of their father) are half-Canadian. In the bizarre way that life sometimes unfolds, their cousins are also half-bloods, since my sister married a Canadian as well. We settled south of the border; they live just north. We’re lucky enough to be separated by a short car trip and generally friendly border guards,…
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It’s been busy, as you already inferred from the conspicuous lack of posting I’ve done. Snapshot of the past two weeks: Visit from my grandparents: Daddy’s birthday: Our new niece’s first visit to our house: Cousins playing and running and laughing and trying their mamas’ patience and being adorable: Visiting the Ben & Jerry’s Scoop…
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