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maybe next year we’ll try cash bribes

Yet another reason I will be glad for Christmas Eve: the Elf on the Shelf. If you don’t know what this is, you are probably 1) not from the South 2) do not have kids or 3) don’t visit shops that sell Christmas ornaments in July.  I’m thinking this year Santa has drastically improved his [...]

pending parenting fail

You know you are screwing up this whole parenting thing when in the same day you: Discover your almost-5-year-old hiding in the pantry scarfing Bunny Grahams like some bulimic cast member of The Hills and then carefully disposing of the evidence, flying the Flag of Fairness in your face after you refused him a snack [...]

baby watch

Draft post from April 2010 – never published: It’s happening.  The other day I was watching a girl feed her baby the same kind of organic baby food that I used to feed Em and I got a sweep of nostalgia.  Today as I looked through my list of categories over there I realized that [...]

when you stop talking, you learn things

I’m not sure why, but the last few days I’ve felt calmer than I can remember in years.  As last week taught me, sometimes you just have to sit back and let things happen to you without really knowing why and without trying to control them or freaking out about it.  Of course, you can [...]