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Sophia

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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Raising a Real Miss Universe

Intelligence, a big heart and the most fantastic gown (just an added bonus) – the choice is easy!  Sophia for Miss Universe! Clearly with all the body image issues we are having around here we do not watch the Miss Universe pageants or any other pageants for that matter.  At least not with the kids.  [...]

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Pre-Schoolers Dream of Being Princesses

My Daughter is a Princess.  She is loving, kind, impetuous, gentle, funny, creative, wild, sometimes disobedient, sometimes bossy, and incredibly intelligent.  No Princess is perfect – and I want her to know that she doesn’t have to be. Sophia will be 4 in September, and I believe she is beautiful.  As her mother, I am [...]

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How the Tooth Fairy Works in Our House

Sophia is almost 4 and likes to hang with the older crowd. She prefers the cool 5 and 6 year olds to kids her own age and thus is constantly wondering when she will lose her first tooth and meet the amazing tooth fairy. She knows exactly what to look for and daily feels her [...]

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Honey, don’t teach them how you clean. You sort of suck at it.

Sophia announced with pride that she had cleaned her play kitchen. I was ecstatic as I have been trying to get her to really clean up for a very long time.  I wanted to see this immaculate masterpiece.  She stood in front of the doors and said “Look, All Clean Mom!”  Her words said one thing [...]

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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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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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