Tag: Parenting
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Is this us?
I’ve finally started watching the TV series This Is Us. I’m extremely late to the game, I know. I am enamoured, engaged, and busy evenings for the rest of the winter. It’s easy to see why it has been at the top of pop culture consciousness for half a decade. I love this family, I…
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You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone
After a few minor crises with teenage daughters over the last week, I’ve come to a shocking realization: I’m through the sweet spot. It happened without me really noticing, as happens with good things in our lives that we come to take for granted. I knew my oldest were getting up there, and that diaper…
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Maybe I just can’t take a compliment
Recently, an acquaintance of mine gave me a knock-you-over, stop-breathing kind of compliment. As a single woman with marriage likely in her near future, she said, and I quote, “I love what you guys have. I want a family just like yours.” More specifically, she explained, she wanted the relaxed, convivial atmosphere she felt in our…
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