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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.)

Standing Tall

“Believe in yourself and the world will believe in you too.”

Patty Lovell

I love places where books live.  The girls and I found a gem at our local library called, “Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon” by Patty Lovell, illustrated by David Catrow.  Pip was the one who spotted it;  she [...]

Give me a break

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

Saint Augustine

Pip and Fig both have miserable colds at the moment.  Neither of them are sleeping well, which means that I, too, am overtired.  By about 4:00 pm yesterday, I noticed that my patience was disappearing.  Pip was riding her new bike in the back [...]

Rejection

“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.”

John Powell

Fig worships Pip.  Not only does she mimic everything Pip says and does, but she also likes to give Pip little gifts.  Especially gifts of food.  If Fig is given a piece of cheese, for [...]

Battle-choosing

“Life is about timing.”

Carl Lewis

You know how everyone says that when you’re raising kids you have to ‘choose your battles?’  Well, I’d like to add that once you’ve decided that something is battle-worthy, it is critical that you choose the right TIME to go into combat.  Last night, I blew it [...]

That’s toe-toe, not Toto

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”

Meryl Streep

The drawback of those great stainless-steel water-bottles for kids is the weight.  Today Fig was enjoying a nice sip of H2O in the kitchen, when she dropped her water-bottle on her middle toe.  The stainless=steel edge cut through skin, [...]