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Tag Archives: Sleep
How do you get through times like this?
I’m trying to write this morning, because I have important follow-up work to do charting your booger rules and stuff, but Greg’s home and he keeps making breathing sounds and clickity clackity click clack typing sounds and allergy season sounds, and, unbeknownst to … 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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Daylight Saving Time Kicks Butt
Daylight Saving Time kicks butt. And whose butt does it kick? OUR butts, parents. Our butts. ………. I originally posted this on Facebook. In case you don’t hang out with us there, here’s other stuff that happened recently on the … Continue reading
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Sleeping. In Surround Sound.
I made you something the other night while I was busy not sleeping. I not-sleep a lot because my children regularly and expertly outmaneuver my Ambien prescription and my 50 pairs of earplugs. Frankly, I think Ambien and Earplugs should … Continue reading
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On Silence and Cacophony and Things That Soothe the Soul
I woke up yesterday morning to silence which happens to me exactly never and made me think that there was a strange and awesome aligning of the planets… or that kind, gentle faeries came in the night to cast magical, … Continue reading
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The Mouse and the Mommy Cycle
I stuck my mascara wand in my left eye this morning because my left eye back-talked me and violence is always the solution. Now, technically, my left eye didn’t say anything out loud, but that’s only because it lacks the … Continue reading
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The Measure of My Success
I started vacation with a partially empty emotional bucket, rather eager to refill it. And now that I’m on vacation, I’m splashing relaxation frantically towards the bucket, hoping some of it will land inside and I’ll be magically refilled. I … Continue reading
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The Kid Who Doesn’t Sleep
I’m sitting in bed right now… (OK, I’m not actually sitting in bed right now, because it’s 5:30 in the afternoon. I mean, I wish I was in bed right now, but my kids expect me to involved and aware and stuff. Their … Continue reading
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My children are Not Very sick, and I have THINGS to do.
Four-fifths of my children are home sick today. They’re not very sick. They’re just sort of sick, living in that strange place between being really sick and perfectly healthy. I bet you know the place. Don’t you? It’s that place in the … Continue reading
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On Working Tirelessly
Courage is not the absence of fear, they say, but the triumph over it. I see this quote attributed to Mark Twain, to Nelson Mandela, and to Ambrose Redmoon. I don’t know who said it first, or who Ambrose Redmoon is, … Continue reading
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