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Let Them Be Kids
These kids have such big imaginations and I’m so glad they’re able to have so much free play and reading. The tradeoff with letting kids be kids is that sometimes it’s easy to…
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Kids Spotlight: End of 2025-2026 School Year
It’s the end of the school year! L earned an “All A’s – 4.0 GPA” Award at school that came with a certificate, complete with a nice gold foil stamp on it! She…
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February Family Updates
Our very dead Christmas tree is still up. I cooked for the first time in months (Peruvian chicken, Mexican Picadillo, chicken tortilla soup) and this crew must be desperate for home cooked meals…
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Be My Valentine
I ordered the kids’ classroom exchange cards online because I haven’t had time to go to a store. Feels kinda apathetic but I’m at a “whatever is convenient- done is better than perfect”…
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Creative Kids… Back In My Day
Fletcher has this icebreaker idea at the dinner table where we pretend we are old folks. In a silly almost Southern accent he says things like, “Back in my day, we didn’t have…
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Game Store Date
Fletcher reminded me each day about how excited he was for our Game Store outing as the time drew nearer. Even though he was getting sick and all of my plans and routine…
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Kids September Update
Soccer season is done and I’m so relieved! What with baby coming a lot earlier than expected, we’ve had some tender mercies including all our kids having the same coach so able to…
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Fletcher’s 10th Birthday
It’s Birthdays Week at our house, and sadly for Fletcher he was sick on his birthday. It’s been a decade of life for this lovable kid! My Fletcher. Ten years ago he was…
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May Moments with Family and Friends
F had a Bonus Bucks school store event and he made up a game called Find The Ball, which he practiced really well to try to hide the ball under cups. His teacher…
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Kids Spotlight: March 2025
The Smart-Looking One My friends saw me with my new glasses and said, ‘We know you’re smart, and when you wear glasses it totally makes sense!’ F, car ride home March 13, 2025…
