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If you're interested in reading older posts, please visit my original blog. I've been writing since April of this year, and I have over fifty posts in my archives. (Eventually, they will all appear on this site.)

Dr. Doolittle

“Talk to the animals.”

Rex Harrison, Dr. Doolittle

Do you remember Dr. Doolittle’s ‘Push-me Pull-you?’  I think it’s going to be my daughter’s new nick-name.  You’d think that when Fig is feeling sick, all she’d want is a good snuggle with Mama.  Nope.  She wants contact, but not too much contact.  She’s very [...]

Hallowe’en Quarantine

“I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.”

Author Unknown

Is there anything more sad than kids being sick for a holiday?  I remember having the mumps as a kid one Christmas, but I don’t think I was ever ill on Hallowe’en.

Luckily, [...]

Finding the gratitude

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”

Tender noses

“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.”

Saint Teresa

Sometimes I marvel at the unlikely situations that fill me with pride.  Nose-blowing for example.

Pip has maintained a fairly positive attitude despite her nasty cold.  I feel as though I’ve been wiping her nose intermittently for the past two weeks, and I have [...]

Structure

“When kids play they remember, they may not be aware that they are learning, but they sure are aware that they are having fun.”

Rebecca Krook

I was inspired by my sister yesterday.  (It’s not unusual, I’m frequently inspired by her!)  She’s home-schooling my five-year-old niece as well as working part-time and mothering [...]

Under the weather

“I enjoy convalescence.  It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.”

George Bernard Shaw

Pip has caught a summer bug.  No, it’s not a grasshopper in a jar, it’s a sore throat and a runny nose.  We were supposed to attend a big family dinner this evening, but [...]