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Rough and Ready 26 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
Today's Sunday Family Fun was an outing to a nearby state forest. The same state forest, in fact, where A. and Cubby went canoe camping over Father's Day weekend. A. actually led us right to the same ...
There Is Something In His Pocket . . . 23 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
Confession: I was never an actual Girl Scout. I did Daisies (like preschool Girl Scouts). And Brownies (like the Girl Scouts' little sisters). But I never did the Very Serious Bridge-Crossing Ceremony...
Further Evidence of Brain Deterioration 22 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
In a spectacular example of either self-delusion or obviously unwarranted self-confidence, I neglected to write down what I planted and where in the garden this spring. My usual practice is to make a ...
A.P.D.--The Premature Nostalgia Edition 21 Aug 2013 | 02:55 pm
As I was sitting outside on a lawn chair on the, uh, lawn yesterday, watching Charlie play in the grass with a ball and Cubby grinding some corn*, all of us in shorts and sandals with no mud on any of...
A Playdate at Blackrock 18 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
We had our friends Alyssa and Jodi and their two young sons over for dinner and boy play last night. Boy play, for those of you who are not familiar with the phenomena, is running around at full-speed...
Photo Shoot 16 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
It's a lot harder these days to get a picture of Charlie and me in the mirror, mostly because he's enormous and heavy and constantly lunging for the camera. Kinda hard to keep a good grip on him with ...
An Open Dialogue 15 Aug 2013 | 04:34 am
Although "dialogue" is not really the right word, since that implies two people who are listening to one another speak and responding appropriately. Small children will sometimes listen to one another...
Lost and (Mostly) Found 13 Aug 2013 | 04:28 am
Now here's a peril of motherhood I've never heard a warning about: Having kids means you will probably start to leave things on top of the car and drive off with those things still there. I did this ...
Grandparental Spoiling Is the Connecting Theme 10 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
I had a bunch of photos on my camera that I finally uploaded to my computer and I realized that in every one of them, the children were wearing or playing with something given to them by a grandparent...
Retail Therapy . . . Or Not 9 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Every few weeks, I hand off the Cubby bedtime duties to A. and run away after I put Charlie to bed around 6 p.m. I don't run very far--just to the Small City. And I certainly don't do anything very ex...
