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Alternate title – What it’s really like having a tween-aged daughter This is Jessie’s last year in elementary school. Starting in September, she’ll be attending the Goddard Scholars Academy, starting junior high (or middle school, as I like to call it because it sounds less grown up) a year earlier than she would if she …

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We split along gender lines this weekend.  Marc is taking Sam to the Chuck Wagon Derby today, and sleeping there tonight.  I told Jessica and Julianna down to my mother’s house, spent the morning and early afternoon at the Clinton Town Wide yardsale, and then hung out at my mom’s and sister’s this afternoon. Before …

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When Sam started kindergarten, he wouldn’t sit on the rug.  Our elementary school favors spotted rugs, with giant polka dots scattered over it, and each child sits on a dot.  Two years ago, just getting Sam into the classroom was more than we could handle some days, and the only way he’d sit with the …

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I love to read.  I read more than anyone I know, and I have since I was old enough to figure out how to.  I was a quiet kid, with a chaotic home life and not a lot of control over anything.  But when I realized that I could pick up a book and disappear …

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My daughter has been a wreck as of late.   We had a brief flirtations, as a family, with a stomach bug and cough – both the older kids were down for a day or so with it.  Julie was sick Saturday night, but by Sunday, the fever was gone.  There were no other symptoms …

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I remember the first time he kissed me, in the hallway to the kitchen at his grandmother’s house.  I remember the first time he emailed me and signed off with Love, Marc.  I remember the way he smiled when I told him I was pregnant, and the way his heart broke with mine when we …

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I’m not a camper.  Although, for the first thirty years of my life, I was.  I went camping all the time as a kid.  The White Mountains, a few times up in Vermont, and almost every year from the time I was my oldest child’s age, I went to Hermit Island up in Maine. I …

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This is a post from few years ago – May of 2009.  This was a really good weekend, and I added some pictures from that day. Happy, happy weekend Well, except for the excruiating sinus infection. But once the drugs kicked in (azithromycinplus sudafed), I was much, much better. Saturday, we had Lilli, Sarah, Glennys, plus my two for …

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It’s crazy busy around here, with the end of the year festivities all over the place, gorgeous warm weather begging us to be outside, and laundry (always) and dishes (oh, I hate dishes) constantly piled up all over the place. I’m finding that I’m especially enjoying this season.  Not just spring, but also this period …

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I don’t like Mother’s Day. I’m also not all that fond of Father’s Day, for the record, but that’s another post. Yesterday was Mother’s Day, and I wished it was just a regular Sunday. Too much pressure to make day perfect, to have every moment be filled blessings and gratitude and happiness – when the …

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