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  Push-Pull

  11.14.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  The domesticity in this house, the past few days, is staggering. I stirred my compost and ground wheat. I baked bread and made yogurt. We planted bulbs (allium, tulips, hyacinth, and daffodils). We carved our pumpkin, finally, and toasted the seeds. We made gingerbread girls (and pigs, ducks, chickens, cows, and lambs). I laundered the [...]

• photography, sisters

  Camera: check, Models: check, Skill: only a matter of time, maybe

  09.17.09 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  I got a new camera for the unique purpose of taking cute photos of my kids (and because Best Buy had no-interest financing and Mr. Bennet still felt bad about the belated Valentine’s Day camera I returned last February.) In August Tara and I road-tripped to San Francisco by way of Vegas (not a very [...]

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  “And you: friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless!”

  05.27.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  It has long been my goal to raise self-entertaining children. What some see as neglectful-parenting, I hail as “imaginative-exploratory-self-reliance fostering.”
  So I don’t really play with my kids. This is, in fact, why I had more than one kid, so that they can play with each other. You won’t find any cute posts here about me [...]

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  “Congratulations. In the history of this camp, that was the most infamous, the most disgusting, the most revolting display of hooliganism we have ever had.”

  05.25.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  My favorite part of The Parent Trap is when the evil step-mother-to-be Vicky asks Hailey Mills and Hailey Mills if they share everything, and they say they do, and then she says “Well you give your sister her half of this,” and then slaps them across the face.
  I’d feel bad about liking that scene, but [...]

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  We are NOT calling them Calvin and Luke

  05.20.09 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  Since good leadership is all about delegation, Dick is in charge of putting the kids to bed. But Dick is a little bit soft-hearted (not to be confused with soft-headed, though they’re not exactly mutually exclusive, are they?). Which means he doesn’t enforce vegetables before dessert, and that he has always been morally opposed to [...]

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  Before I pitch you

  04.01.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The only way to get a word in edgewise in a house full of girls is to sneak up behind them:
  Happy Wordless Wednesday!

• sisters

  People who say looks don’t matter are on crack

  02.18.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  Because if she weren’t the cutest thing ever, I might be a little bit upset that she got the empty microwave popcorn bag out of the trash, inserted her head and, in a quest to capture every last bit of trans-fat, yellow no. 7 goodness, smeared it all over her hair, face, and clothes.
  Dick is [...]

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