I. Am. So. Embarrassed.
I hate misspelling words. Being a writer, it’s even more of an embarrassment. Although being able to spell a word is not the same as knowing how it wield it with aplomb.
Still.
I have edited my mistake but cringe at the thought that anyone saw it before I realized my error.
That’s the worst […]

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There were a lot of things I wanted to write about today - our great day yesterday with Edward’s first baseball game, our annual burning of brush and downed branches last weekend, plans for the summer - but the only thing on my mind now is how irked I am at the local road race […]

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Whew… we’ve made it to our “smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English”-th anniversary. Congratulations to us! Much has happened in the years since our beautiful wedding day. I can’t help but think of the people who have arrived in our lives (kids, lots of kids! nephew! neices!) and the people who sadly have […]

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Shhhh! Don’t tell Edward, but today I managed to score TWO Webkinz for his birthday. I had all but given up on acquiring any since they are, apparently, the hottest of the hot new things, a la Beanie Babies in their day. In the past couple of weeks, I’d scouted out all the local shops, […]

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This morning, about 90 minutes after I set up the coffemaker and switched it on, I had a slight lull in the madness and realized I hadn’t had my first sip of the day. I reached for the pot and poured myself a steaming mug of… huh? What’s this hot, clear liquid?
Yeah. You know you […]

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I was so thrilled to see that big yellow bus pull up this morning, I could have run out and planted one on the craggy old (but nice) bus driver. Thank you, thank you for taking my eldest child!
Then Davey’s bus pulled into the driveway. We were playing outside for a few minutes because he […]

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At last, yesterday we woke to find a blue sky and sunlight. The world is transformed into a glorious, springy delight. Even better, the kids were released from their prison (our house) and ran wild around the yard. Davey shed his sneakers time and again, prefering, as always, to walk barefoot up and down our […]

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Loathing is perhaps too strong a word. Then again, in the moment, perhaps that’s exactly what it is. The dichotomy is not unique to our relationship, yet the reality of it takes my breath away. It has been raining for days, and chilly too, so not a lovely spring rain for frolicking. It is spring […]

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I’m sure Dex thinks of himself as the only Who fan in our house, but he’d be wrong. For Christmas when I was 16, my folks, at my request, gave me a cassette of The Who’s “Face Dances” album. I can see myself standing in the sunlit dining room, listening to it through the headphones […]

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Tonight was family movie night. We managed to start our feature presentation of “Happy Feet” before 7pm. Edward requested popcorn (which, come to think of it, was his dinner). Whether it was the singing, boogying penguins or the super-charged kernals of popping goodness, the kids were all giggly and wiggly. The girls were dancing around, […]

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