March 2010

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The PLAN: I post about going carbon neutral, let them know via email, add the pretty badge, and the Arbor Day Foundation plants a tree in honor of Late Enough!

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I’m on the phone with my friend CA: CA: How are the kids? Me: The kids are great. Except N is eating sand. (N looks at me with sad sandy face.) As I save N from herself, CA replies: It’s better than eating dirt.  My boyfriend ate dirt.  As a kid. Me: Good to know!  [...]

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E is learning the difference between left and right in school.  They do the Hokey Pokey. (Yes, I did just get that song in your head. And I’m sorry).  He often comes home with a sticker on his right hand to help him discern this difficult lesson. (Full disclosure: I can only wink my left [...]

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Almost 25% of all U.S. women have experienced domestic violence. Focus He finally broke my glasses. The company claimed indestructibility. But I knew better, Even then, years ago, I told the saleswoman, nothing lasts forever. Most things hardly last at all. But she was almost right, The glasses lasted longer than most. When I thought [...]

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A perk of being a pediatricians wife (don’t run away yet my manly readers):
(Why yes, that is my husband, a pediatrician and father, lighting a tampon on fire

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We are driving on the left side of a straight yellow line in the parking lot of the local Kohl’s. Me: Are we in the wrong lane? S: No. I think that’s the fire lane. Me: Oh. Like at the hardware store? S: Yes. (thoughtful pause)  At least, I think so. (20 yards pass) Me: Well [...]

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On our Sunday hike, I am sitting with my daughter at a picnic bench.  A man in his late thirties is about ten yards away from us wearing the t-shirt: I Heart Hot Moms. I don’t really get the shirt:  Is he a single guy on the prowl for a mom?  Single moms?  Married moms?  [...]

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Parenting may kill me. Not literally (although my son’s around-the-neck hugs have gotten pretty tight). But there are moments that I can’t keep it up. The patience. The love. The joy. I just want E to listen. I just want N to sleep. I believe there are moms out there who are born for this. [...]

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