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  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 [...]

• parenting, Spot

  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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• parenting, Spot

  Was it the Mountain Dew I drank in the first trimester? Spot has the Other “D” Syndrome

  07.29.08 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  Dick is ready (oh, is he ready) to have another kid. Last week he said for the first time that we need to have another try at making a boy. This is almost a relief to me, because before when he always said the right things about how happy he is that we have three [...]

• 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 [...]

• outings, Spot

  Elephants, Alligators, and Vampires, oh my!

  03.10.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Aack. I feel all self-conscious, and almost wish I hadn’t linked up to the UBP. I’m not one for seeing and being seen for the sake of it. Really. I feel like I’m in high school again, and not in a good way, which most of high school was (good). All these blogs, all these [...]

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