Minivan Affective Disorder
We bought a minivan a few weeks ago. I have to admit that I was not prepared for the level of emotion I experienced after the purchase. I was never one of those people who vowed I would never own a...
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AFSCME Convention 2010
AFSCME Convention 2010, originally uploaded by Justpowers. Our family is in Boston this week for the 2010 AFSCME Convention. Well, Mike is in Boston for it, we are just along for the ride, enjoying...
View ArticleWilliam sleep eating
William sleep eating, originally uploaded by Justpowers. We went to the Boston Children’s Museum today and had a great time, except it meant William missed his morning nap. So he got in a few extra...
View ArticleSummer travels
This past Tuesday we returned from our 12-day excursion to Boston. It turns out that our little family can kick it like the Von Trapps when it comes to traveling together. As we prepared for the trip,...
View ArticleI Weep
Being a mom has brought me some of the happiest moments I have ever known in my life, which has surprised me a little I think. I guess that’s the thing about being a parent, you have no idea what you...
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Emma and Will shared an ice cream cone recently. It was rough going for a minute or two but they worked it out.
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Valentine’s Day
I used to think that Valentine’s Day was a grown-up holiday and anything we did to celebrate it as kids was just practice for the REAL celebration of the day that would happen in the future – when we...
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As vacations go…
Let’s be honest here Moms and Dads: a vacation with kids can be…well…hit or miss. I know we all love our kidlets to pieces and can’t WAIT until those few weeks out of the year that we get to hang out...
View ArticlePotty talk
My son, of late, reminds me of a Chinese fortune cookie. Or at least what we used to do to a fortune cookie in college (of COURSE we don’t still do this now, we are GROWN ups now…) So in case you don’t...
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When I first had Emma I added the tag “A whole new world” on this blog because I was so amazed by how much things changed when that little baby entered my life. When I added the tag I thought I might...
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