little nuggets

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As a baby he wasn’t all that into being ‘babied.”  He never like being rocked with a story and a song to lull him to sleep.  He pre­ferred his blan­ket, eight or so var­i­ous stuffed objects, a pat on the head, and a lot of I wuv ewe’s head­ing out the door. As he’s grown older...

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preach without the practice

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I am Catholic.  Bap­tized and raised as such. I have so many mem­o­ries of Mass with my Mom and my Grand­par­ents.  The rit­ual of the Mass is so com­fort­ing to me, even today.  As a child I attended other reli­gious cer­e­monies.  My child­hood best friend was Mor­mon and I went to her ser­vices a bunch of...

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blue blankies

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Last night Biggest went to bed with­out his blue blankie. The one we brought him home in.  The same one I had to sew the nat (tag) back on because it had fallen off from all the love.  The blan­ket he’s often chew­ing on since he doesn’t chew on his nails any­more.  The one he...

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mr. clean

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I promise peo­ple, I can’t make these things up.  And I promise I can’t make them hap­pen ONLY when Babe is out of town. Let’s not for­get about the time 16 min­utes almost killed me and the infa­mous pee in the foun­tain sto­ries… both hap­pened while Babe was of out town.  I swear each time since...

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trust

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I’ve seen a lot of posts, tweets, sta­tus updates about con­fer­ences so I’m assum­ing it’s that time of year for every­one.  This will be my sec­ond year on the other side of the table, the par­ent side.  I spent many more than that on the teacher side.  Both years I’ve won­dered for days before which...

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easier

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You haven’t been sleep­ing well this week. (It’s prob­a­bly because we went crazy, let you out­side until you were lit­er­ally shak­ing from the cold.  All for the love of a pic­ture.  I can’t help but find the irony in me los­ing sight of the big pic­ture in that one.) The pre-​​midnight ver­sion of me that res­cues you doesn’t...

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