I find myself already forgetting what we’ve done and when so far this summer, so I am going to take a moment to summarize before it’s a complete blur.
Week 1
I had all four kids home with me. I can’t recall much else other than that. Dex worked at home one day and of course had […]

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My babies are three today! Between them there are six years. Pinch me, it cannot be real. And yet, here they are, big grillies, as they say. Big bed-sleeping, potty-using, chattering, running, dancing, twirling, living, loving grillies.
xoxoxo to my Jules and my Mae
love, your big mama

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So freakishly weary this afternoon. Glance at clock. It reads 3:59.
Thoughts:

time to make coffee
in three hours, can get no-nap girls ready for bed
we can make it three hours
I think

Short time later, finally rinsing and filling coffee pot, glance again at same clock. It reads 3:40.
How can this be?! Twenty whole minutes have just been tacked […]

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This is the green marsh I was talking about:

This is also one of the last images captured by my trusty old Sony F707 (5MP) digital camera. It has served me well. Images from that camera were featured in my solo photo exhibit this winter. Dex gave me that camera for my birthday the summer Davey […]

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Now that it’s been several hours, my back muscles are tightening into bands of pain. The ribs beneath are pushing back in protest in their tender, bruised state. Right elbow is whimpering for attention but hey, you’re only abraded, you’ll live. Right calf (ext.), the early troublemaker, is soldiering on. It’s the back. From neck […]

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Shhhhhh! I don’t want to jinx it but I just have to tell you that [wild-eyed look over shoulder, fist rapping on wooden desk] Jules is 2.25 days into potty training with ZERO accidents.
Granted, she’s been ready for a long time. She and Mae have been in pullups, have been using the potty at their […]

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I have been following the amazing trip of Jane and family as they journey cross country from west to east and back again. I am reminded of our own long, incredible journey last summer… the days in the minivan, the unloading and reloading at hotels along the way, the weeks with extended family… it was […]

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By all accounts (the notes in his home-school communication book), Davey had a good first day at his new school. He was, as I expected, passed out when he arrived home. But he did well. And the true test? He was smiling and laughing when he got on the school van this morning (at a […]

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I know it sounds odd to be talking about school in early July, but Davey has extended year services. This means that he goes to 5 weeks of summer school to avoid regression on his skills and abilities. Because he’s starting a new school in the fall - an out-of-district placement several towns away - […]

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So tell me, am I expected when Edward recites some old (and often borderline rude) playground chant to pretend that I haven’t heard it and haven’t recited the same sing-songy, titiallating verse a bradillion times before?
Because he lays these on me - “Mom, listen to this” - and he’s laughing at his own cleverness and […]

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