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  Rooster

  08.31.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  I’ve had several months to regret buzzing Spot’s hair. It made sense at the time, and she didn’t care. Not caring was probably why she cut her bangs off at the scalp in the first place. Several months is nothing, of course; I have spent years regretting the times I have cut my own hair.
  Then [...]

• Family, Spot, church

  Hey Mommy, that’s a white boy!

  04.23.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  At church this week I ended up on the hemmed in side of the pew. This usually happens to me, even though I remember I hate the inexorable tide of three children and a loving husband pressing me into the corner where the pew meets the wall, because I am usually the first to walk [...]

• Spot

  Who’s afraid?

  02.22.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  I have a cute video of Spot, so I tried to think of some counterpoint to the cuteness, some raw messiness to give depth to the adorability, but I’ve got nothing. Spot is cute like Dick is oblivious. She’s my favorite cuddler right now because she’s still small enough to nestle to my chest; she [...]

• Spot

  Drinking Buddies

  11.20.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I have three daughters. My sister has two daughters and a son. (I was going to say that she is lucky to have a mix of genders, but I don’t know how to phrase that without making it sound like I regret having three daughters, which I don’t, except when I think of poor Dick [...]

• Spot, parenting

  Compromise

  11.17.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  I leave it to you to guess which pieces she insisted on and which pieces Mom gently persuaded her into.
  I plan to assert myself when it actually snows, though. She WILL wear socks with those flipflops, if it’s the last thing I do.
  Jane
  p.s. Dick was thinking to himself this morning (early, as he leaves the [...]

• Spot

  P.S. I love you, even if your legs are really short

  11.07.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  spot rides her bike from jane on Vimeo.
  In case you think I sound like I’m twelve years old, the following video should remove all doubt. And also provide some clues as to why our home life is just one big, shiny rainbow.

  decorating birthday cake from jane on Vimeo.

• Spot

  All the flip-flops in all the world

  11.06.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Dear Spot,
  If you’re reading this when you’re thirteen and looking for a legitimate reason to hate your mother (as if you needed one), you might bring up the fact that I never mentioned that it was your birthday last month, three days after Susan’s. It’s not that I forgot that you turned two, or that [...]

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