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Personal Hygiene and the Megaphone
After watching a children’s roast (last week’s post) about leaving the house, my partner decided it would be fun to share it with the girls and show them what parents go through. They are pretty...
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Strings Attached
Both in our house as well as their mom’s the girls are required to hang their clothes after the parents finish doing laundry. Here’s what happened at their mom’s house: Mom had finished her laundry and...
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Rainbows, Ice Cream, and The Castro
On a recent summer vacation to Half Moon Bay with Shane’s brother and his family, we decided to take the kiddos to visit San Francisco. Shane and I had the little ones with us (H2:7, and S:5.5 years...
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Wait, I Can Explain
I didn’t realize how early the inner critic shows up. For your reference the artist is 9 years old. Look at how she’s externalizing her inner critic. Project 1: Her assumed failed attempt at drawing...
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Tetanus. God’s Fault.
Typically during bedtime, H2 stalls. This is the time she comes up with all manner of questions, some of which you totally fall for, because it’s a topic you are interested in. That’s how I used to...
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Thoughts of an Insaniac
On a relaxing Saturday morning H1 comes to me with her notebook and pencil. “BB, I want to write an essay with you.” “Awesome. Let’s do it.” “I want it to be like the one you wrote.” Unsure which she...
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Two Thanksgiving Bloopers
Blooper #1: H2: “Can someone help me butter my waffle?” As I butter the waffle, she continues: “You are so good at that. I can never do it.” Me: “Now that’s BS and you know it.” H2: “What’s BS?”...
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Chewing Gum, the Little Prince, and a Case of Mistaken Identity
Since we were leaving for Texas on the actual day of the girls’ Christmas play, we went to church to watch the rehearsal a day in advance. There, H2’s little friend came up to me wondering if I had...
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Out of Order
Last Saturday: Encounter 1: Overcome by insomnia, I moved to another room at about 2 a.m., so as not to wake up my partner by tossing and turning. 6:00 am, still dark out, door to the bedroom opens,...
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What are we Teaching Little Girls in 2016?
Every weekend the girls are here, I write a message on their board. It ranges from little facts to poems. This, a poem by Nayyirah Waheed, is the most recent. Sadly, we still live at a time when girls...
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