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Back to the beach
We are about to head down to Ocean City, New Jersey, for a family reunion and some beach and boardwalk fun. When I was a kid, we went there every summer, staying at what used to be my grandmother's...
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The first vacation that actually sort of felt like one.
I'm not saying that everything was a piece of cake, or that there weren't tantrums, or that there weren't times when I longed for the days of being able to alternately swim in the ocean and lie on the...
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Are concerts for kids break time for parents?
As you may know, I'm married to a singer/songwriter, Alastair Moock, who happens to have recently released a totally kickass family album, A Cow Says Moock. (Buy now!) So he does lots of performing for...
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The Bread and Butter Gals
So, we've been doing the whole family dinner thing for almost three months now. Ever since I wrote about it back in May, and y'all gave me a verbal whooping for not doing it sooner. (Well, not really....
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The Society for Putting Things in Other Things
There must be some kind of wiring in the toddler / preschool brain that creates a propensity toward packing. And packaging. And, basically, putting things inside other things. (Not to be confused with...
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Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon
This morning, as Alastair was getting the girls ready for an outing, Clio took a break to come over and sit on the floor near me, where I was eating the last of my breakfast. Clio: I'm thinking of a B...
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The daring feats of Elsa & Clio
Helloooo out there! Sorry for the long radio silence. We've been gallavanting about New Hampshire and Vermont, enjoying our annual end-of-summer vacation. This one was one of the best in recent memory,...
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Extremely Demanding and Incredibly Rude
What's the magic word?Would you like to try that again?If you ask me again nicely, like a big girl, I will.Are you forgetting something?What do you say?Can I please hear a please and a thank you?...
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The challenge: school lunches
The girls go back to preschool this week -- yahoo! -- and this year they're staying until 1:00, so they'll be bringing their lunch. They are extremely excited about their new lunchboxes, which match...
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The House of Demented Playthings
Our friends' son Owen is obsessed with the alphabet. Day in and day out, he asks for his parents to help him write / build / sculpt / etc. the letters of the alphabet. This has been going on since he...
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Talking twins, tornadoes and bipolar disorder with Jenna Blum
So, I’m trying something a little bit wild and crazy with this blog post. As you know, I don’t stray too far from my blogging formula here: I write about my incredibly fascinating and glamorous life as...
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Elsa, will you PLEASE go to bed?
Arrrggghghghrrhghghgrhrhhrhrggghh!!! It's getting to the point where if I had a dollar for every time I blogged about the trials and travails of bedtime, I'd have enough to buy a...well, OK, a pizza....
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Butt out, Mommy.
As if to cruelly, maliciously mock the fact that I complained to the internets about how we were having bedtime challenges of late, the girls took it to a whole new level the night before last: Clio...
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The Strange Ways Kids Play - Your Photos!
First of all, thank you all for your interesting thoughts and perspectives on what to do (or not to do) about our girls' report that the other kids won't let them play with them at preschool. We're...
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Mama's tired
I was all excited to report back on how much better things have been going lately in the bedtime department. And then, last night, Clio woke up around 3:00 am to go to the bathroom, and couldn't fall...
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Bye-bye, Babies
I've been spending a glorious week out here in Western Massachusetts at this magical place, doing nothing but writing and reading and sleeping and taking drives and walks through some of the most...
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"They were perfectly happy before you got here."
Ah, the words that just warm a mother's heart. Dad / Grandma and Grandpa / the sitter / etc. have been enjoying a perfectly lovely day with the girls -- they've been absolute dolls, perfect angels --...
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Are you preparing your kids for college or the apocalypse?
I was a little heartbroken when I read this article in the New York Times about languishing sales of picture books that came out last week. Apparently sales are down, and publishers say that it's not...
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My children are kleptomaniacs
Well, not exacly kleptomaniacs, I guess. But they do, all of a sudden, seem to have taken on a distinctly "what's yours is mine" (and NOT the reverse) attitude when it comes to household objects and...
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Are you ambivalent about motherhood?
I remember an acquaintance of mine saying, once she had kids, that she “totally LOVED being a mom!” I had hoped, before I had kids, that I would say the same thing (albeit without the same, slightly...
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