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7 small things on a wednesday
7 small things on a wednesday
it’s thursday… I blame an important screening of Lemonade last night (it gets better with each viewing) for the tardy nature of this post. But in the Queen’s words: I ain’t sorry.
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7 small things on a wednesday
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Read Moreback to the classroom
A month before Luke was born, I stood in my classroom at the end of a long but fulfilling day. My body was exhausted and sore. It was June and I was 8 months pregnant. Our kindergarteners were preparing for summer vacation in the ways kindergarteners do: with an uptick in meltdowns and a dramatic…
Read Morethat blue chair
We are mostly settled into the bungalow over here. As much as my instinct was to settle in at a turtle-like speed, the boys I live with insisted we be done with it already. Mike did his insisting with patient but clear language. Luke has done his insisting by attempting to use the power drill as a…
Read MoreLuke at the Rodeo (we went, too)
not my first rodeo This weekend our friends Frank and Katie invited us up to Fort Worth to the rodeo. The only comparable experience I have to the immediate and astounding culture shock I experienced at this event was when on my first day of meeting my home-stay family in Quito, Ecuador during study abroad…
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A few things you should know. I have always found Wednesdays to be quite challenging (original, right?). Throughout my life they have always been a day where I over-schedule myself. I’m so good at preserving Mondays and even Tuesdays but by Wednesday I’ve said yes to way too many things and we’ve eaten our way…
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About a week before we moved out of Brooklyn, I was carrying Luke up our stoop and he spontaneously said, “home.” It was the first time I’d heard him use that word and he said it with the same sweet voice he says “Nana”, “Mimi”, “Stell-eye” (Stella, Luke’s girlfriend in Brooklyn) or any of his many…
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Brownstone to Bungalow 