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Miles

This is What I Call Indepence Day!

I can’t tell you how ready we were for school to start today. We have been waiting and planning and talking and…waiting some more. We went on Monday thinking it started. Oops! We jumped the gun…2 more days of waiting. This morning we woke up ready. Clearly Sophia and Miles were pumped. We wore red, [...]

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The Kids Milked Me

I would never let my husband do this in a million years.  I mean absolutely never.   I never thought I would let anyone do it, but this morning that all changed.  I let my kids milk me.  I was using a hand pump to get a little milk for baby Violet for her morning nursery [...]

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Riding the Bull at the Better-Than-A-Picnic

As promised, dear readers, I rode the bull at the Hebrew National Better-Than-A-Picnic yesterday.  I was one of only a handful of adults that braved this stunt in broad daylight without the help of a couple drinks in some bar.  Totally sober – I did this for you – and I actually loved it!  And [...]

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Should I Be Worried?

Miles clearly wants to be that bad ass boy no girls are supposed to date.  It seems he is always trying to steal sips of beer when anyone leaves a can or bottle on a table and God help me he has tasted beer.  Some people did not believe me when I told them my [...]

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Bedtime is not Optional

Without a normal bedtime, a meltdown will follow.  The parent who is with the children in the days following a bedtime fall out know what I am talking about.  Your kids might be cute at night telling you that they are not tired, but it will not be cute when they are actually full out [...]

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

I was just lucky to get them all in green and sort of cute looking. Getting them all to smile? Impossible. But hey – we are not Irish – so I am pretty impressed that they are even in green. They even made a video for you. And Miles talks! Not well but I am [...]

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Miles-tone: Big Boy Bed

I finished building Miles his big boy bed the night before Violet was born, 8 weeks ago tonight.  He did not sleep in it right away.  We sang songs  in his bed.  We told stories.  We read books.  Sophia and Miles laid on the bed and talked.  They had picnics.  It was more like a [...]

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