Tag Archives: trombone

Thankful

Dear Children, Even when you get up too early and sing all the time I can see, intellectually, that it’s a good thing. Much as I might want to sleep longer and have the world be quiet, I can’t help … Continue reading

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Control

I hate being read to. I know, I’m supposed to love it. People love it. I saw a facebook post years ago that listed ‘reading to your partner’ as the biggest turn on of all, even more than doing the … Continue reading

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Second Week of School — It Goes Deeper than Pants

This is a public service announcement if you, like me, had no idea that starting kindergarten would* turn your child, who was already challenging and testing you, into an Other Child. (An Other Child is when your child turns into … Continue reading

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Five Good and Five Bad

OH the children, right now. The children. I can see and understand that my kids are testing me and acting out because: they are starting school and change is scary and life is flux. The weather is hot and it … Continue reading

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My Grand Annual Tradition of Money-Wastery

I sure wish I had it in me to write something meaningful and profound today. But I don’t. We went to the PNE (a local, annual fair and amusement park) yesterday. While at the PNE I realized that going to … Continue reading

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