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When did camisoles become appropriate daytime wear for nine year olds?  Is it just me?  Jessie has several adorable tops someone had given her as hand-me-downs- but they’re camisoles.  Built in little girl bra, spaghetti straps with adjustable bra strap in the back.  And she wants desperately to wear them like shirts, and everyone else …

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I feel… overwhelmed and exhausted.  Sam is still sick, hollering out every few minutes “I’m so… ill” and hasn’t eaten in two days.  Julie and Jessie are eating popsicles (I’m sure the sugar high will help with bedtime) and Marc just left to go back to work.  It feels like everyone in my life is …

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Got the call from the nurse today (and note to other moms who might move or get new cell phones – the secretary doesn’t necessarily update the nurse’s records with new numbers) and my poor boy sick.  Sick, sick, sick.  He was fine this morning, a little quiet, and said he wasn’t that hungry.  To …

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I’m pretty secure in my parenting abilities.  I’ve been doing this for a long time, babysitting for a good twenty five years, being an overly involved aunt for about fifteen, and a mother to my own children for nine years.  But there are times, like today, when I’m pretty convinced that I’m flat out awful …

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I converted to Judaism about three years ago. I think. It was before my youngest daughter was born, and she’ll be two in April. So about three years ago. My spiritual background is somewhat challenging to explain, because I’ve explored a lot of different spiritual paths. I was born into a nominally Catholic family. We …

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I’m relatively laid back about my parenting. I like to encourage my children to make their own choices when they can. I let them pick out their own clothes when they want to (although more often than not, they’re just as happy to have me do it). And for the most part, this works out …

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I want to homeschool. A little bit, anyway. But I don’t. My kids don’t like going to school, but I’ve sent them both, and am already planning on sending my toddler off to preschool when she’s three or four. My kids are homebodies. They prefer to be at home, they prefer to be with me. …

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Ahh – so Thursday was my snow day.  And Friday, I was in a pickle.  Because we’ve had an abnormally warm winter so far, and I’m somewhat spoiled by the fact that my husband has always done the snow removal (although to be fair, in the ten years we’ve been together, he’s rarely, if ever, …

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Baking. That’s my plan.  It’s not a complicated one, and I’ll reap the benefits in the forms of sugar free chocolate cake for her diabetic daddy, corn muffins for her to enjoy and chocolate chip cookies for the boy child and baby.  Jess is at the age where she’s pretty convinced that her brother was …

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But I just have to complain.  Or comment, because I don’t even know that it’s complaining so much as just seeking sympathy.  Not that I’ll get any, really, because nobody ever comments.  Which sounds bitchy, I’m sorry.  But man, by the end of the day, I’m freaking exhausted.  It’s unbelievably tiring sometimes.  There are parts …

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