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Take THAT, Worry. We are FINE.
Emergency rules, you guys. Our family has them. I don’t know. Maybe we honed them from necessity during all the times my kids have taken a wall to the head or embedded a sewing needle in the leg or lost a fight with the monkey bars — stitches and surgeries and breaks, oh my —…
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On Getting My Butt(s) Kicked
I didn’t literally get my butt kicked, although I might know a certain 5-year-old who lives at my house who likes to beat his mama’s cheeks like bongos. Your butts make beautiful music, Mom. Plus — bonus! — they jiggle wiggle jiggle wiggle. No, I’m talking more about a figurative butt kicking. As in, I am pooped,…
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Reflections on Back-to-School from a Both/And Mom
It’s back-to-school Tuesday, and I’m just not sure. I’m a little lost. A touch uncertain. I’m not so much confused as I am, well, complicated. So I wonder… Is today an OK day to be a Both/And mom? Is it? Because, you know, I read articles and blogs and Facebook posts and they’re kind of…