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Roller Skating
My kids’ school hosts a roller skating program in gym class for grades 1-5 for three weeks every spring. It’s a much-anticipated annual activity. Except it hasn’t been an annual activity recently, or at least not for us. School shut down due to covid-19 in early March 2020 when my oldest was in first grade.…
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WKC
I attended the Westminster Kennel Club show once. This was back when I lived in New York City and the show was held on weekdays in February at Madison Square Garden. I took a day off work and spent a lovely series of hours immersed in dog show culture. My favorite part was wandering around…
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People Who Love Exercise
I really don’t enjoy exercising and I never have. I do it regularly, or at least I try to, because otherwise I feel awful and have no energy. But I have often wondered what is wrong with me that I struggle so much to find motivation to exercise. When does it get easier? All these…
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Partial List of Thoughts at 4:45 AM
*Note that the question is not do I love my kids enough but rather am I showing them enough love. I am not at all effusive and never have been so it’s an ongoing project for me to intentionally demonstrate my love to my children.
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Home Alone
My kids are old enough to be left home alone now for very short periods of time. It’s a game changer, and the biggest parenting level up I have experienced since the day the youngest went to Kindergarten. Driving to the paint store without grumpy kids in tow this weekend brought back memories of my…
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That Disney Adult post that you all knew was coming.
I’ve been trying to think of a clever way to present this new information to you all, but I guess I’ll just come out and say it. I love Walt Disney World. We went during spring break this year. It was too crowded. It was too hot. The wait times were too long. And I…
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Margaret
I bring my kids to swim lessons on Monday afternoons. The swim school is great but overwhelming: too many harried parents and chaotic, wet children. There’s a toddler and father pair who are always there at the same time as us. The little girl must be around two years old and her name is Margaret.…
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Spring Cleaning
I’m doing some spring cleaning around the house. This is the first time I’ve ever done an intentional deep clean in the spring, and I am largely motivated by our time spent at a Disney World resort last week. This place is a real dump compared to Saratoga Springs! It’s amazing how much time this…
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Happy Little Hops
My kids are eight and ten years old. They both have this strange habit of adding in happy little hops as they walk. Four steps, hop, five steps, skip, three steps, hop. It’s very cute, and I know it won’t last. I would like to remember this.
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Hot Topic
One day you’re twenty-two years old and walking out of Hot Topic for what must be the last time. And all of a sudden, you’re forty and walking back in to buy a Demon Slayer shirt for your anime-obsessed kid.