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Family

The Mom In Me: My Kids Are Creative Geniuses (Now with pictures!)

December 11, 2008

This week has been one of uber-creativity for my kids. It’s spirit week at their school and Max’s grade is doing the holiday play. Spirit week entails a different type of dress for each day. Tomorrow is crazy hair day or hat day. Chilihead, Jr. asked me this morning if we could make her hair [...]

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Santa: Is He or Isn’t He? What Do You Tell Your Kids?

December 8, 2008

I have always been a great believer in pretend and imagination. As my husband and I have raised our kids I’ve relished my role as Head Elf, Resident Leprechaun, Tooth Fairy, Easter Rabbit, Great Pumpkin, and any other imaginary, gift-bearing being. When my son was about five he noticed that I have pointy ears (I [...]

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My Strong Girl

November 26, 2008

Third grade can be a hard year, I think. Something sort of changes–in the teachers’ expectations of the kids, how the kids see themselves, how the kids interact with each other. I saw the change when Max was in third grade and now Chilihead, Jr. is in third grade and I’m seeing it again. With [...]

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Overheard at Grandma Jann’s

November 25, 2008

Grandma Jann is awesome. Not just because she picks up the kids from school every Friday, keeps them overnight every other week, and generally fills in whenever needed. She’s also completely awesome because she plays Monopoly with my kids so I do not have to. That game seriously caps my buzz, y’all. Last weekend was [...]

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Life is Known to be Fatal

November 3, 2008

Like most people, I’ve lost people I love to various forms of death. Only one of them has been expected–we knew my Grandma Isiphine was not long for this world when the Alzheimer’s took her. What was unexpected about my Grandpa George’s death was that he died before Isiphine. He was old and frail, we [...]

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My Island

October 15, 2008

I love my family. I really do. The kids are out of school for the rest of the week for Fall Break. We spent the morning being lazy. Lazy as in, I laid around in bed snuggling with whichever kid I could grab at any given time. (They really should know better than to walk [...]

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Iowa: Lightning Bugs and Livin’ Free

September 18, 2008

I wrote this post last summer, but forgot to post it. I found it this week and thought I’d share it with you. Next week I’ll be writing about our family reunion in Iowa. I’m late, but whatever. When I was a little girl, I loved my summers in Iowa. As I grew older I [...]

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Iowa, Land of the Casserole

September 16, 2008

My love of Iowa is well-documented. So don’t give me any grief about giving them grief. Iowa is the land of the casserole. They will vehemently deny it, but I have yet to visit that state without being fed several casseroles on my visit. Donâ€™t get me wrong, I love a good casserole. Every meal, [...]

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Another Thing I Never Thought I’d Say

August 30, 2008

On any given day since I’ve become a mom I say things I never thought I would. Things I never even considered saying before. So, can you figure out what we started doing this weekend from this conversation? Child: Mom! I found another finger! Me: Awesome! Put it in the dining room with the others.

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