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“This is magic.” Only a child would say something like that while walking the halls of a children’s hospital. We had just exited the elevator taking us from the registration floor up to the pre-op level for my daughter’s scheduled surgery –a tonsillectomy, a frenotomy (lip-tie cut), and a myringotomy (ear tube replacement). When we…
This morning my two-year-old locked me out of my house. I stepped out back on our patio to let our aging Labradors out to relieve themselves. While I usually leave the back door open so that I can hear my kids fighting for the three to five minutes that I am not in the room,…
I claim (and complain) that I get the worst of you, but the truth is that I get the best of you. I get the you who is on the journey. I get the you who is slightly naive and curious. I get the you who is learning and growing. I get the you who is…
I thought I knew what was important in life. So God made you (and you and you) to show me what important looks, sounds, and breathes like. I thought I knew how to recognize beauty. So God made you (and you and you) to show me that beauty can look different and make you feel different…
there once was a girl who knew she could she could because she would she would take every chance dance every dance this girl who knew she could there once was a girl who knew she could then anxiety took over her ‘hood her ‘hood and her brain her courage got stained this girl…
Today, my daughter and I wrote a story. So did my son and I. Let’s start with what prompted this: Last night, my daughter said something that hurt a bit. She said that she needs more attention and that I am always saying “one second” or “in a minute”. I sat there on the floor…
Over the past few weeks, quite a few parenting articles have been making the rounds. What’s the topic that has everyone conversing? The notion that we only have a limited number of summers with our children and that we must make the most of them. On the other side of the fence, you’ve got those…
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