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Soap, Anyone?
Yesterday, I wrote about my daughter calling her younger brother an, “old bitch.” And here I was thinking that was the topper to my day. Nope. After work, I picked my youngest up from preschool. We...
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Are You Happy?
I heard an interesting story this morning on NPR. It was basically refuting a decade-old study that found parenting leads to unhappiness. New research suggests it is the mundane daily tasks that make...
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On the Move
We are moving. Geez, that one sentence is both and understatement and an overstatement at the same time. We are moving – one exit closer to town. Google says it’s 10 minutes – or three miles away....
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Oh, what a night…
Now that I have that song stuck in your head… My evening with my children was… interesting… to say the least. The first day back to our house after spending time over at their dad’s is always a rough...
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Babies and Puppies
When I was a full-time news producer, I had a task of finding what we called a “kicker” on a daily basis. You know these stories: the feel good 30 seconds of your day that ends the newscast after...
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My Kid is Special: Perfect Parent Vision
Have you ever watched that video of the toddler making basket after basket? The kid is a basketball superstar. And he’s still in diapers. How about the five-year old piano prodigy? Then there’s the...
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80s Style Montage of Parenting
So, I’ve been slacking. I take that back. It’s kind of the opposite of slacking. I’ve been busy and it’s been unusually nice this summer here in Alaska, so I haven’t been writing. Okay, that might be...
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Hair Brush Murder Sounds
I remember, as a child, hating to have my hair brushed. My hair was long. Very long. I could sit on it. And while I could do lots of things with it, the one thing I never wanted to do was brush it....
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Getting Involved
You know that expression, “time is money?” The older I get, the more I realize the truth in that statement. There is so much that needs to be done: laundry, dishes, homework, housework, lawn chores,...
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“What’s the ‘N’ Word?”
Growing up in Alaska, I never really knew the depths of racism in our country and how alive it is today, until I went to college in the midwest. There I saw and heard things that caught my eye and...
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