A humorous blog about life with young children.
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“Karen says if you eat too much you get flat,” Kaylee said to me the other day.
I really wonder what’s going on in Kaylee’s head when she hears a statement like that. Is she imagining eating a bunch of food and magically flattening into a Kaylee-shaped piece of paper, c
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I have no coherent topic for this post, so I’m going to give you some bullet points of things I would have elaborated on if I were being an actual blogger lately.
1. Ginny Weasley probably doesn’t wash her hands often enough. I know, right? Who would have thought
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I am having a bit of a day.
That’s the sort of thing I say about Kaylee whenever she comes home from school and can’t not yell at me for any indiscretion. You know, like breathing and offering her apple juice when I should know that she’s not in the mood for apple juice right
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One of the classes I’m taking this semester runs from 8 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. on Friday mornings – a particularly cruel schedule, I would say, if it weren’t for the fact that this is the one and only time of the week when it’s easy to find parking on campus.
Because no one can s
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"Karen said I'm ugly."That's what Kaylee told me today, on the way home from school. Karen, of course, is not the child's real name. No one names their kids Karen anymore."What?" I asked, surprised to learn that these things start so young."Karen told me I'm ugly."How do I react to this? I wondered.
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As some of you already know, I went to the BlogHer conference with my friend and fellow blogger Lisa of Grandma’s Briefs a couple of weeks ago.
I first heard of BlogHer a few years ago, shortly after I started following Dooce, Fussy and Finslippy, plus a bunch of other blogs that I’ve lo
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Dear Kaylee and Robbie,
This time last month, I was worried about the two of you. We were preparing to start you in a new daycare, and I thought you might not handle the transition well. I thought you would be stressed out, crying, missing your old daycares.
I should really start giving you gu
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We are pulling into the garage when I hear it: the tinkling, tinny melody of "The Saints Go Marching In."Kaylee's eyes light up while mine show only terror. What she hears is a song of pure joy, holding promises of wonderful treats. What I hear is a toddler siren song, one that will inevitably leave
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Dear Kaylee and Robbie,
It’s time to admit defeat here and give Robbie another reason to have a complex about being the second child. Just 18 months in to writing these letters for each of you, I’ve decided this is something you’re just going to have to share. No more i
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Last week, Kaylee learned how to do finger quotes. I don’t know where she got it, but all of a sudden at dinner one night, she started talking about her day at “school” and how she was all “done” with her “dinner” and wanted to be “excused.&rdquo
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