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  “I am the sister of Chief Cream of Wheat”

  03.31.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Sally shaved off almost all of her left  eyebrow on Monday. Tom noticed it first, and from his worried tone, I thought she’d been punched in the face by the stairs on her way down from her room. But she was just “pretending” with daddy’s razor, and was as surprised as anyone else when most [...]

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  I am the voice inside her head

  10.22.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Two entries from Sally’s school journal: this Halloween I’m going to be a enchantres. I have a dress that’s velvet and Gold triming. I will have magic powers and fly. my mom got me that dress and i Love it! she got it from the chepest place! Di! i wonder why anybody would give it [...]

• Sally

  Come back here

  04.22.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  We were late getting Sally to school today. She complained that I sat too long in my underwear at my stupid computer. I reminded her that I had to ask her five times to get in the tub. And she was silent. She reached around me for her seatbelt as I strapped her sister in [...]

• Sally

  One more thing

  02.08.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Dear Sally, I think maybe you will someday read this blog, and if you are a new mother, I hope that my honesty, my writing about what motherhood is really like, my posts that make it so that sometimes the top google search for my blog is “I hate being a mother” — I hope [...]

• Sally

  Tell us how you really feel, Sally

  09.23.08 | Permalink | 28 Comments

  Sally drew this during church last Sunday. Such a sweet child. Stumble This! For more posts like this, subscribe to What About Mom. Check out more Wordless Wednesdays.

• Sally, school

  Dear Sally, Grandma thinks you’re autistic and she can’t stop talking about it

  07.21.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  {Back to HELP WANTED.} Sometimes I think about homeschooling. This thinking usually peaks around May and plummets in July. The timing is handy, making me look forward to both summer vacation and to school starting again. And even though I know it’s a cycle, I can’t avoid it because let’s face it: two universal truths [...]

• Sally, Spot, Susan

  Because I don’t have any wild mustangs handy

  06.23.08 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  And also because my ovaries tell me that these are the cutest kids ever to walk the planet. Of course, my ovaries are not to be trusted, but I think if I had ever been this beautiful, my life would have turned out much different. I would be Queen of Lichtenstein by now, at the [...]

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