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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Kahlil Gibran Over the last month, it seems as though Fig has become more attached to me than usual. She’s sleeping through the night now and I’m down to only two breast-feeds […] “The moment you say ‘I know everything’ is the end of your growth.” Sharon Lee
“Pip, you need to put some clothes on,” is a phrase I find myself uttering, not just in the morning, but several times a day. My daughter simply […] “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabi Now that I have an opportunity to write, I’m realizing that I really missed my daily postings last week! It reminds me of when I moved away from home to go to the […] “Everyone eats and drinks, yet few appreciate food.” Confucious Big Daddy-O was away and the girls and I had to run an errand in the late afternoon. It took longer than I had anticipated, so at 5:20 pm I decided to pick-up Chinese food for dinner instead of cooking at home. […] “A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.” Bill Vaughn When Fig is too quiet, it usually means trouble. I was in Pip’s bedroom, assisting with her fifteenth costume-change […] “In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” — Ann Landers Pip wanted to play with her cousin last week and I explained that she was having a sleep-over at Grandma […] “Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now Pip and I were snuggling together in bed one morning while Big-Daddy-O and Fig were getting a […] “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” Lyman Abbott Pip surprised me the other day by stomping her foot on the floor when she was frustrated. It was a case of her not getting what she wanted, and instead of talking about […] “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.” George Burns Do you remember Grassman? Well, he’s still around. He’s been hanging out on our kitchen counter with our jade plant, watching the fall storms blow through […] |
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