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Owl Heads, Stubborn Letters, The Bright Side, and Other Funny Kid Stuff
“Mama,” Luke said in the authoritative tone he gets anytime he’s excited to tell me something he thinks will be news to me, “do you know how you say ‘lookit’ in Spanish?” “How?” I asked. “Si, si!”...
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Happy
I remember catching myself when Luke was about two with the sound of his “Mama” in my head one night long after he’d gone to bed. The word in his voice just surfaced out of nowhere, the same way a song...
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Growing Up, Changing Clothes, and Treasure Hunts
At the playground near a nature trail we sometimes visit, I overheard Luke try to introduce himself to a little girl he’d just met there. The two of them were gathering buckeye seeds and cracking them...
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Little Kids, Big Ethics
Listening to Luke and Maddie’s backseat conversations unfold on our drives to school can make for some of the most entertaining parts of my week. A five-year-old mind has such comic potential even if...
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Lessons Learned from Balloon Animals
The boys were thrilled the day we randomly stumbled into a Christmas fair. For them it was a fun diversion from the otherwise dull chore of shadowing me on Saturday errands. The surprise of it all...
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Before and After
In the space it has taken me to update here, the main character in the last post–this cute plush puff ball in a tracksuit–has become a well-loved remnant of his former self. “Sweatsuit Pup” as Luke...
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Can’t Call it Quits!
Kids are like dry ice people, appearing solid and the same from moment to moment but so drastic in their changes if enough moments collect. We protect, clothe, pack school lunches for, and tuck in at...
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