“Mommy, my eye itches!”
The whiny voice came from the back of our minivan. We were trundling slowly down back roads, halfway to our vacation destination, loaded down with so many towels and flotation devices and industrial-sized bottles of sunscreen that the bottom of our van nearly scraped the ...
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Freeze-Frame
Freeze-frame
Across the room you catch my eye,
bouncy curls bobbing, glinting sun,
chubby hands clutching, waving spoon,
secret laugh bubbling, casting joy,
and I want to stop time,
freeze-frame your innocence,
your toddlerhood,
this moment,
forever.
So I try.
I pick up the ...
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Parents Vs. Zombies: 26 Questions Every Parent Should Ask About Technology
Every other day, my kids come home from school talking about the Next New Thing in technology:
"His dad got a smartphone, and it has this cool app!"
"Their mom got a tablet, and she lets them play on this awesome website!"
"This game system does this . . . that video game does that!"
The ...
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13 Reasons Moms Never Get Haircuts
Have you noticed that just before a woman has a baby, she chops all her hair off, and then spends the next few years growing it out long enough to braid into a rope she could use to escape a burning building, Rapunzel-style?
Don't believe me? I offer photographic proof.
This is me, on the day we ...
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