It starts like this: She’s back in there. Where the shoes are. The sunscreen. That hat. That hat that’s for running. Oh that hat. And the shoes. And so I wait. I whine very small to remind her I’m here. I yawn. And stretch. And groan. Why doesn’t the door open? Finally, she’s in the […]
The Punishment Light
A package came to our house this week. I wasn’t expecting it until Monday. Colin was expecting it by 8 pm Sunday evening like the tracking website promised. I showed him it was being sent via USPS and explained they don’t work Sundays. His shoulders drooped. He wouldn’t have the precious headphones he’d researched and saved for […]
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What to do with a couple bazillion cherry tomatoes
Every spring, Mike starts putting things in pots that he swears he’ll care for properly and that won’t die out in mid-August in our yard in front of God and all the neighbors. Around about this time a year, he’s all but given up on those plants and I get to be responsible for keeping […]
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Of Hobbits, French Crepes, and Crappy AC: A Night of Junior High
By the time we got to the school, all the other parents had cleared the halls and filed into their kids’ respective first-period classrooms. Our first stop was orchestra, where the parents who’d arrived before us filled the whole room except the front row. I stifled the urge to bow as Mike and I passed […]
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Parenting, the ‘meh’ mom style
“We are new to the area. What time does school start and end?” This was the question hanging out there on our neighborhood social network last week. I had to think. When does school actually start and end? These days, only thing I’m sure of is what time I have to shoo kids out the door […]
