Found this old scan in my iPhoto library when I was looking for something else.It made me laugh.
Topics: Photos

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Speaking of getting all teary-eyed, I’m all choked up at the thought that this little boy is six years old today. And that brilliant, funny, cocky, sarcastic guy I married is as wicked cute as ever.Happy birthday to my two leading men!
Topics: Family

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A while back I read something—it might have been in a book, but I’m pretty sure it was in a post or article online somewhere —that put a name to the emotional response a reader or viewer may have to a particularly moving part of the story. You..
Topics: Books

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This is news that shocks me to my core. The other day a faraway friend called me, shuddering, to say she’d just discovered head lice on her five-year-old. She knew I’ve been through that particular horror myself—twice, a year apart, the...
Topics: Family, nitpicking

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• Our read-aloud of Winter Holiday, which we began in (gulp) September.• Our new read-aloud of The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas. This one’ll be a cinch (she says recklessly)—it’s a shortish book, something between a very long...
Topics: Books

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