It was only gone for about fifteen minutes, but yesterday morning I had thought I lost a piece of my childhood forever. My mom gave me a yellow polka-dot cape and matching purse that I had as a girl. Abigail likes them and has started carrying the little purse places. Yesterday morning she took it […]
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I lost a piece of my childhood yesterday
April 25th, 2004 · Comments Off on I lost a piece of my childhood yesterday
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Sleep like a baby
April 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off on Sleep like a baby
Just went upstairs and tucked Abigail back into bed. She might be getting ill and seems to have a cough. I carried her from the bathroom to her bed, her arms and legs wrapped around me, a whole-body-hug in the dark. Then I arranged her pillows and covered her with her sheet, blanket and comforter, […]
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First person perspective
April 23rd, 2004 · 1 Comment
In the past day I’ve read two powerful first person perspectives: Via Scoble I found Lauri Evan’s story at The Right Society Let me introduce you to somebody who lost their husband in the military. In 1988 as I waited for my husband, Dave, to come back from flight training, he didn’t. I accidentally found […]
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Listen to her…
April 23rd, 2004 · 1 Comment
Speaking of persuasive parents, Debra Galant (whom I missed meeting at BloggerCon) is all set for Mother’s Day: Here’s a graphic she made…for those who finally realize
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“The sensual, physical pleasure of caring for young children”
April 15th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Surfing through the list of BloggerCon registrants I discovered Diane Danielson’s To work or not to work, that is the question … which linked to a Boston Globe piece by Cathy Young titled Rebalancing Work and Motherhood: But does the feminist approach ignore many women’s desire to care for their children? So says a new […]
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