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Parenting posts that include the touching, the embarrassing, the annoying, the typical, the atypical, the whatever. You just have to be a parent to get these.

These are Tucker’s nail clippers.  Tiny and barely sharp enough to do their job.  Sort of innocent looking. Because I suck and cut his finger when he was five months old, they are evil.  The kind of evil that makes him bleed.  The nail clippers that made us both cry were orange.  I’d hoped that […]

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Somebody I used to work with messaged me on Facebook to ask how my son is doing.  She’s never met him.  Normally, in a situation like this, I just type “Great!  He’s adorable! How are you?” and move on.  But I also used to work with her cousin. I saw him recently, and he knows […]

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Tucker used to love the bath.  Not anymore. Not for the past few months.  I’m not sure why.  So, last night, as he was standing in the tub not wanting to sit down or let me put shampoo in his hair, Robert walked in to witness me stripping down. “What are you doing?” My reply? […]

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Sometimes, I get sad and cry for no reason. This morning, after dropping Tucker off at school, I stopped by the grocery store to stock up on chicken fingers since that’s one of the 11 foods he’ll actually eat. As I was walking back to the car, I almost started crying in the parking lot. […]

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Ah, Sunday.  At the beginning of this four-day weekend, you seemed so far away and yet still an active participant in the bliss of spending extended time with family, playing outdoors, eating comfort food (if stuffing isn’t something we should incorporate into more meals, I don’t know what is) and relaxing.  Yet, here you are, […]

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Before I began blogging, I knew nothing about it. I’m not exaggerating. I didn’t even read other people’s blogs. I didn’t look for them or at them. I was totally and completely removed from the blogging world. How did I get here? Hm. I wonder, too. Basically, I’d written a bunch of stuff (which you […]

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