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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

(Crazy) Hat Day

Ten minutes before the bus was due to arrive, “Mommommom, it’s Crazy Hat Day today! What should I wear?”“Oh, yeah…isn’t it just Hat Day? It doesn’t have to be a crazy hat, does it? Just wear one of your baseball hats.”“Okay, uhmmm...well, do you know where my abc hat is?”“Not offhand, honey, can you
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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

The TV in the Living Room

Two Christmases ago, Santa brought us a flat screen TV. It was a marvelous thing, and seemed to take up an entire wall. Of course, it didn’t, but it’s a small room, so the TV seemed larger than life. The TV we had in the living room at the time (as big as a coffee table) was relegated to the man cav
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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

Rich is a relative term

Here's a story from my book, Snakes, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tales.“Mommommom! Pick a color!” My middle son thrust a cootie-catcher at me. I was folding laundry on the dining room table.“Orange.”He studied the word momentarily and then spelled out, “O-R-A-N-G-E.” as he worked his fingers back and fort
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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

Haikus for the homework challenged

My oldest has to write a poem for one of his classes and he has been telling me about this for what seems like weeks, and I think to myself, just do it already! but say to him, "Do you need my help?"He says he does but then all he can tell me is it has to be at least two stanzas. I'm like, uh huh, b
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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

The choices we make (and the ones we don’t)

 Last year's minor league summer team.Dad was coach and youngest was bat boy. I was sitting alone -- cross legged on the floor in the “skybox” overlooking the gym in the high school with my forehead pressed against the Plexiglas for the second time this week.Tonight was my middle son’s baseball ev
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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

Peer pressure and the need to fit in

My youngest asked me tonight to do his hair in a “faux-hawk” (he had wanted to get a mohawk the last time we went to the salon but I convinced him that if he didn’t have the sides shaved, then he’d have a choice about how he wears his hair.) We have some super-stiff hair gel that “makes hair obey” a
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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

The eye of the storm?

It does get easier. I noticed this recently when I was able to take a shower one morning without having anyone barge into the bathroom or hearing anything crashing or anyone yelling downstairs. This morning, for the first time, not everyone came bombing upstairs the moment they woke up. I was happy
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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

Homework, cartoons, Watson and the Sox

“Yay! That only took you two hours! And how many days of obsessing about it?”“Three days, Mom.”I had just finished editing (the run-on sentences out of) my oldest’s journal entry for language arts. He was supposed to write about a book he was reading, which happened to be a treasury of fairy tales.
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MotherMorphosis® · 1Y ago

Car talk

I’ve started letting the Bigs take turns sitting in the front passenger seat of my car. I’d held off as long as possible, because that’s my territory and I liked being able to put my stuff all over that seat. But having a kid in the front does have its upsides. First of all, they don’t sit all in a
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