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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…
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February Music and Big Moves
L tells me it’s been a musical month. F has been composing songs on his harmonica after piano practice (his Dad is teaching him the harmonica). I’ve fallen into a K-pop BTS black…
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Kids Update: Bananas, Boats, and Books
It’s been a while since I’ve updated on just the kids. They are growing so fast! They are such good wonderful kids and we’re so lucky to spend time with them as they’re…
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Harry Potter Escape Room
For our first Mother-Daughter Date this year, we booked a wizard themed escape room! This was our first escape room together, so it took us a while to figure out what to look…
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Mad Science Mother-Daughter Date
Our July mother-daughter date this year was at Little Beakers, a science lab for kids. I made a reservation for their earliest slot (noon), and booked a 2.5 hour open lab. The place…
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Laser Tag 13th Birthday
Our baby is now a teenager! She is smart, caring, creative, thoughtful, generous, beautiful, capable, surprising, and so loved. Her birthday happened to be during the family reunion, so my Mom asked her…
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Roller Skating Mother-Daughter Date
Lily seemed like she really enjoyed our rollerskating date even though it was only an hour of skating. We enjoyed some fun songs and the disco lights! I held her hand a lot…
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December Family Moments
Here are a few moments I’d like to remember from this month. Quiet times at home. Performances and celebrations. Admiring our lovely mountain. I got to read F’s first book entitled “The Dragin…
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Bowling Mother-Daughter Date
This girl had a very special day today for our December Mother-Daughter date, which I pulled her out of school for the first time for. I think that made our time together even…
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Year of Mother-Daughter Dates 2023
We’ve got quite the year lined up! L requested a year of experiences with me for a Christmas present again. When I plan these, I have a spreadsheet so I can keep track…