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Like Swimming · 1W ago

The Best Phone Survey Ever

Thank you, dear survey monkey, for doing your thankless job tonight. You made my day.
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Like Swimming · 3W ago

Firetrucks and Piñatas and Stitches…Oh My!

No kid wants to miss his own birthday party, so Little G opted to have some bacitracin and a bandage slapped on his gaping head wound. After all, there were presents! And cake!
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Like Swimming · 1M ago

So Tell Me

In which Fisher-Price thinks my four-year-old is a girl and I contemplate the correct spelling of "dammit".
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Like Swimming · 1M ago

Because Today I Can’t Dwell on the Sad

My mantra for the week: I love my children. They are not minions of Satan sent to torment me.
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Like Swimming · 2M ago

Emptying the Baby Trousseau

Little by little, my baby trousseau has dwindled as my acceptance has grown. Last week I opened it up to find a gift for a friend and discovered I'd reached the last of the items from my blue bin of princess clothes.
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Like Swimming · 2M ago

Special Delivery

For the next hour, every time I glanced at the pizza box, I burst into giggles and Car just shook his head and rolled his eyes.
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Like Swimming · 2M ago

Shame is Not a Useful Parenting Tool

The best way to make sure I ​won't do something is to use shame as a motivational tool...Why on earth would I think my kids are different?
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Like Swimming · 3M ago

I’m Totally Okay! Well, Mostly.

I'm not sure I'll ever be free of that faint hum of disquietude. Frankly, I'm not sure I ​should​ be free of it. My body has failed me spectacularly in the past. If it were a person, I would've shunned it long ago. But it's my body, not a person, and I have to be okay with an uneasy truce.
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Like Swimming · 3M ago

You Know That Feeling?

It's that kind of day. You know, the kind of day where I don't have time to sit down, but I do it anyway, because I have to write so my head doesn't explode.
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Like Swimming · 3M ago

So Many Syllables

Can you tell me three words that have more than two syllables? You can do it. I have great faith in you.
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