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No, Susanna, you can't have my baby. But there are four other kids here you can borrow for a day. Or a month.
Let’s say you get your carpets cleaned and stain-treated, and you carefully explain to your kids that they can only walk on the carpet in their bare feet until the carpet dries completely. They… more →
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No, Susanna, you can't have my baby. But there are four other kids here you can borrow for a day. Or a month.
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zstitches wrote 23 hours ago: Let’s say you get your carpets cleaned and stain-treated, and you carefully explain to your ki … more →
Your technology tip for the day
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zstitches wrote 4 days ago: Say your (much depended-upon) backspace key is getting slower and slower. So you search online, and … more →
Warm up a kid and your own heart while you're at it
zstitches wrote 6 days ago: Sue of “Navel Gazing at its Finest” has helped organize a great project to provide coats … more →
In which Mabel shows she's inherited her dad's genius for naming things
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zstitches wrote 6 days ago: We had some snow on Saturday morning. Mabel named her snow girl “Pathetica.” Tonight t … more →
More hard-won parenting wisdom
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zstitches wrote 1 week ago: If you feel sorry for your three-year-old when you discover that, having only ever been allowed to w … more →
Look at me being all ponderous and thoughtful with no (deliberate) stupid humor! Look at my tendonitis flaring up!
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zstitches wrote 2 weeks ago: Over at Segullah they were talking about how to know if you’re really “doing your best, … more →
This might be the first blog post you'll read about dishcloths. Also the last.
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zstitches wrote 3 weeks ago: Several years ago when I learned to crochet, the first things I learned to make were dishcloths. Dea … more →
At least my laundry and ironing are (slowly but surely) getting done (kind of)
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zstitches wrote 1 month ago: Also, I’ve been composing lots of posts in my imagination. Like the post about everything that … more →
Proud parent of an effective screener
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zstitches wrote 1 month ago: I bet that’s the first time that salesman’s had a child, let alone a cute 9-year-old gir … more →
As if I hadn't already overshared,
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zstitches wrote 1 month ago: I totally forgot to mention, earlier, my other Parenting Fail today: I was trying to read a book wh … more →
It really is a small world after all
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zstitches wrote 1 month ago: The school gave Rose a coupon to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point and I was considering … more →
This, that, and the other
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zstitches wrote 1 month ago: We’ve been out of baby cereal for a couple of days, and this morning I crushed Crisp Rice cere … more →
Just stuff, or, in other words, this post may or may not have a point
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zstitches wrote 1 month ago: Today I finally finished making fruit leather from the last of the plums I had harvested 2 weeks ago … more →
Annoyances
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zstitches wrote 1 month ago: The other day when I took the kids with me on errands, before we left I asked Mabel to put her skate … more →
Sugar, oh Honey Honey
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zstitches wrote 1 month ago: Dean’s part of a research team whose project is currently on the BYU homepage, and the story w … more →
For that matter, when I was a kid I might have eaten the Jelly Bellies
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zstitches wrote 2 months ago: When we bought couches a couple of years ago, I chose a leather one for practicality, and a fabric o … more →
Way too much like real life
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zstitches wrote 3 months ago: Ugh–I just woke up from a vivid dream in which I had first spent a great deal of time getting … more →
All-you-can-eat buffet restaurant brings family closer (in which you'll learn more about ceramics than you were anticipating)
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zstitches wrote 3 months ago: Mabel: “Mom, I realized we always all sit in the same places, so we changed it around. Now y … more →
