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Shannon's mid-day update to a working mother
she who is queen and princess of all she surveys and most of what she doesn’t, who has been almost downright unpleasant company since about halfway through the grocery store, who greeted a delig… more →
(another) new kid on the block
shannon's mid-day update to a working mother
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carole wrote 6 months ago: she who is queen and princess of all she surveys and most of what she doesn’t, who has been al … more →
smith's disease
carole wrote 7 months ago: now, there have been any number of ailments — physical, psychological — that, over the y … more →
the (eerie) ties that bind
carole wrote 8 months ago: a chronology of freakiness: item 1: in one of the 45-minute naps that passed for a good-night’ … more →
invasion of the princesses
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carole wrote 9 months ago: saturday morning i heard mairin making her veeeerrry careful way down the stairs (she likes to run a … more →
discipline & punish
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carole wrote 9 months ago: a.m. timeout: p.m. timeout: yeah, it’s not floor-cleaning day at our house. (then again, it r … more →
because everyone needs a villain ...
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shannon wrote 9 months ago: mairin is fascinated with thomas the tank engine — she received some track as a gift not long … more →
say 'cheese sample'!
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carole wrote 10 months ago: item 1. mairin loves cheese. i assume that she will do her birthstate right and grow up to also love … more →
she slays me ...
shannon wrote 10 months ago: … she really does. yesterday evening the kids and i bundled into the car to go pick up c from … more →
maybe it's just the hat
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carole wrote 1 year ago: mairin in chariot, november 2006 mairin and eamon in chariot, november 2008 i look at them both ofte … more →
mairin among the garlic eaters
carole wrote 1 year ago: scene: a small reception room on a midwestern state university campus. the room is set up with round … more →
one more time, with feeling!
carole wrote 1 year ago: mairin’s toddler version of repetition has fully re-energized what i have previously considere … more →
lel-lo
shannon wrote 1 year ago: in lieu of anything substantive to report about the new kid (35w1d, knocking his mama around, heartb … more →
something in the air?
shannon wrote 1 year ago: for the first few months of her speaking life, mairin referred to me as “dada” and carol … more →
paul! paul!
carole wrote 1 year ago: it’s not just my great-uncle’s name, or the easiest-for-our-almost-two-year-old-to-prono … more →
what is twenty two?
carole wrote 1 year ago: is it: a) the length, in centimeters, of my expanding uterus? b) the number of pounds i’ve gai … more →
twenty-one months
carole wrote 1 year ago: at twenty-one months, mairin is delighted by all things potty and loves to whisper her new words: … more →
practice makes perfect...or at least gives you enough experience to say
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carole wrote 1 year ago: HOLY SHITE woman WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? that’s right, folks. i have now spent a full 8-hour sh … more →
no place like home...
shannon wrote 1 year ago: when the teeter-totter goes a long way in one direction, it’s gotta make the same long trip in … more →
