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that sinking feeling. again.

you know, before i had kids, before i got married, i was a pretty confident person. i think a lot of that confidence came from youth. and being kind of blissfully clueless about the delicacy of all human interaction. …
young powers of observation

colin: mom, i've been thinking. i don't think rudolph is for real. i think he's made up. me: oh really? why is that? colin: well, cause you never see him anywhere for real. you only ever see him in cartoons.…
so ready for this vacation to be O-V-E-R

i know that it's not reasonable to expect young children -- three and five year old little boys, for example -- to be, well, reasonable. but after fourteen straight days of family together time, fourteen straight days o…
resiliancy.

colin's kindergarten teacher has taught the kids some big words. i love that. i've always cringed at how much adults talk down to kids. it's not that i think that we need to talk about heavy adult topics -- death and …
sad news.

the eleven year old nephew of an online mom friend of mine has been battling a rare type of cancer that they found, on a bit of a fluke, several months ago. today we found out that the cancer has taken over his lungs an…
Huh.

this morning i found kai in the bathroom not brushing his teeth, but instead clearing out the cupboard underneath one of the sinks. what an odd thing to do, i thought at the time. but since my main focus was on getting…
tot on a rope.

a few years ago, after a particularly stressful trip to the oakland zoo with my remarkably large pregnant belly and a then 2 year old colin, i broke down and bought... a toddler leash. oops, i mean harness. leashes are …
choosing not to dwell.

well that sucked. i had so hoped to nail that job interview today and instead i sounded like a complete blabbering fool. inarticulate much? so while i could moan and groan and try and dissect every moment to see where…
little critters.

a few weeks ago i had to bite the bullet and buy some mouse traps. there was, i suspect, just one lonely little mouse that had made his home in our garage, but the store only sold mouse traps in sets of twos. so now i …
getting into the happy habit.

lately i've caught my husband and my son in the act of suppressing their delight. this is something that makes no sense to me. why not just go with it? this morning, for example, i had to wake colin up so that he wou…