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My son was born after midnight during the cooler days of May, before the Central Valley could blaze triple-digit temperatures.
The delivery room was packed full of people. The doctor, several nurses, my husband, my parents and my mother-in-law were in attendance. As my son emerged into the...
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Does it ever seem like your child has transformed overnight? Overnight they went from an infant, to a baby. Then again overnight they were transformed from a baby to a toddler. This has been the sequence of events for man cub for as long as I can remember. He would be a kid one day, and a tween...
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One drawback to living in a “Melting Pot” society is our lack of clear-cut customs. Many cultures have their own rituals and ways of celebrating the many transitions in the life of a child, especially when that child transitions from “kid” to “young adult.”
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Yesterday we went to Sonoma to celebrate Father's Day early. No one told us that it’s NASCAR weekend in Napa (and Sonoma didn’t have anything about it on their town website or calendar of events.) Despite the horrid traffic coming home, overwhelming smell of duck poo in the air...
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Last night was a 9th grade event at man-cub’s school. In Davis, Jr High is 7th-9th grade and High School is 10th-12th. This means that he was “big man on campus” for a whole year. What a big campus it was too!
I ran into an old mom-friend I hadn’t seen in a while....
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I wonder… will there ever be a time in my son’s life when I DON’T want to rush in and make it all better? I can’t imagine it ever being so.
He’s 14 ½ now, just starting the 9th grade and I STILL want to rush in and save the day every time. Of course...
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...Even around sharp objects. –sigh- not an easy task for any parent.
I was raised wedged between two worlds. My grandmother, who had me at least half the time I was growing up, has serious anxiety disorders. Everything would cause her to freak out, panic and worry. This in turn would...
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So I took my 4 year old daughter to her first horseback riding lesson on Sunday thinking that I wish that I would have started earlier when I was a kid and now is the best time for her. So I went into it thinking that it would take her some time, and some falls(even though I was dreading this)...
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Like any other kind of stone; kidney stone, gallstone, a milestone can be difficult. Overnight it seems I find myself living with two men rather than my little boy and my husband. I know I’ve talked a little about this realization before here, but this week we had a big milestone.
On...
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So today in the mail I received my new drivers license. Now I have not had a picture taken since my 16 yr old picture when I first got my license and that was 13 years ago. The thing about it, it was a GREAT picture. I loved it(which as you know is very rare for a DL) I always got comments about...
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It seems like overnight Jakey is getting taller, expanding his vocabulary and just plain simply, growing up. He'll be four next month which I realize in the big picture of life, he's still in his infancy. Nonetheless, he's achieved many milestones thus far: crawling, walking, talking,...
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Back when my son was three I really wanted another baby. REALLY REALLY wanted another one. My husband however did not. After much discussion, we came to a compromise. It takes six months for a vasectomy to become affective. I would have those six months to get pregnant, or not. If not, that would...
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