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Why I Am Not Napping at Naptime

In the beginning, it was about getting away. When it was one all-consuming, all-needing baby, sometimes all I wanted was to explode from the house without looking back. I didn’t need to go far. To the grocery store, to the … Continue reading

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To the Children, to Make Much of Their Dreams

Dear Trombone and Fresco, Last week I got an email from my former supervisor, offering me my job back for a year while my maternity leave replacement goes on maternity leave. (Office Chair of Procreative DoomPanic strikes again.) It was … Continue reading

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A Fleeting Thought, Pinned

Sometimes I say things to my children and I am stunned, simply stunned, by my hypocrisy. “Be nice to people,” I say. “Everybody makes mistakes.” “I don’t like that voice.” I am the grown up. It falls to me to … Continue reading

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Enjoying the Ordinary

On regular to bad days, life at home with small children is drudgery. It is boring, routine, hard work. It is not the parenting that is hard, though. It’s just the trying to do anything else other than parenting that … Continue reading

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Thrills, Chills, Etc.!

Before I went away, the night SA came back from his trip, I was tucking Trombone in to bed and he had his head on his pillow all sweetness and light and I leaned in to kiss his cheek and … Continue reading

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