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Der, Tooth Fairy
Our codependent relationship with the Tooth Fairy is well chronicled. I know. And I hate to beat a dead horse, but, really, if you’re going to beat a horse at all, one that’s already dead is definitely the best kind, … Continue reading
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You Don’t Have to Choose a Parenting Method to be a Great Parent
I walked the floor with a baby on each shoulder gently bounce, bounce, bouncing them, my back burning, hoping to ease my twins to sleep. They must’ve been just a few weeks old, our fourth and fifth kids, recently out … Continue reading
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Greg’s Not Home Tonight: A Very Bad Haiku
This isn’t a real post. Just an ode to Greg not being home. In very, very bad haiku. Greg’s Not Home Tonight Greg’s not home tonight. He’s at a meeting for work. I’m home with five kids. Three kids are fighting. … Continue reading
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Kids Pooped in My Front Yard and I’m on a Podcast
True story from our weekend. Ready? Some kids pooped in my front yard. My kids. The End That’s not really the end. Some kids pooped in my front yard. My kids. They used toilet paper to wipe. The … Continue reading
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UPDATED: How to Clean a Toilet. Or… my toilet brush doesn’t work for crap.
I caught myself muttering in the bathroom the other night as I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed the toilet with sadly limited results. This toilet brush doesn’t work for crap, I mumbled. Which was true and also true. My toilet needed … Continue reading
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Left Turns Ahead
We always turned left at the river to get home, and it made my dad giddy every time. “Leeefffffffffffffffft tuuuuuuuurrn!” he’d holler, tipping the Cessna tail dragger suddenly, a smooth pirouette on the tiptoe of the wing, and I’d hang suspended to … Continue reading
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Happy February
Happy February, friends. Wishing you peace and joy this season and the whole year through, The Woolsey Family ………. P.S. In honor of our progressively leaning angel, I’ve tentatively titled this piece “Even Angels Become Weary.” Sometimes, when we’re … Continue reading
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Weekend Plans, Insider Trading, and Making a Cleanliness Gesture
I’m spending the weekend in Portland with my oldest baby at a dance convention. This is why: I forgot to watch Dance Moms for inspiration before we left, though, so I’m afraid my behavior won’t be up to nagging and … Continue reading
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The Five Kids Blog As It Appears On Instagram
Do you Instagram? I’m there more and more often these days. Instagram is eking its way in to my favorite places to spend time online. If Facebook is the living room of social media where we sit in sticky stuff on my couch … Continue reading
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The Show Must Go On
The show must go on, they say. And it did, all weekend, all over the country, despite Friday’s shooting in Connecticut, and Thursday’s fire here in our small town, and Tuesday’s shooting in Oregon, and a week that laid us … Continue reading
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