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And I'll Raise You 5: Averting Awkward Alliteration
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Little T learned about alliteration today in school, and she had a great time creating little one line "poems" with her classmates. My personal favorite, koan-like in its profound simplicity, is this:. The careful cat cooked colorful cupcakes in the courtyard. Let that soak into your brain for a moment. It's pure beauty, right? She remembered many of the others she composed at school:. The lion licked lots of lemon lollipops. Savana slid down several slippery slides. Thank you, 5th grader.). Mommy was pr...
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And I'll Raise You 5: Cupcake Dreams
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I want to be a kid again. I want to tell stories the way my youngest daughter does. I want to dream about cupcakes. And I really, really want a Dream Teller of my very own. During dinner last night, Little T was devouring my homemade spaghetti sauce and making me feel like Martha Stewart, Julia Child, and Ree Drummond. All rolled into one, and she mentioned that she knew she was going to have a good dinner tonight because her Dream Teller told her so. Come again, daughter? 21 February, 2015 12:15. NaBloP...
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And I'll Raise You 5: March 2014
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Denial is a river you can float pretty far on. Sunday started far too early yesterday. Curse that Daylight Savings Time thing. There I was, cuddling up with my youngest at 6:45am, feeling the full effects of missing a precious hour of snooze. She, on the other hand, was radiant at that ungodly hour. She climbed in bed, looked up at me with a satisfied smile, tucked her hands behind her head and sighed blissfully:. Ahhhh, it felt so good to get an extra hour of sleep last night. And that actually, we lost.
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And I'll Raise You 5: On Laundry and New Beginnings
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On Laundry and New Beginnings. I don't make New Years Resolutions. Per se. Instead, I spend the whole last week of each year in a perpetual state of "Oh My Gosh I Need To Read More, Eat Less, Breathe More, Yell Less, Calm the F Down, and Take Charge.". Then I resolve to be a better person. All vague and stuff. Because really, resolutions don't work. December 31 is just a day on a calendar. It doesn't matter. It's not significant. Anyway, who the hell knows? How keep resolutions to be better? But one othe...
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And I'll Raise You 5: February 2015
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Wherein a Cynic Rethinks Some Things. All those awesome happy beautiful good life photos we see on social media: they're all a total crock, right? When my kids see their friends' super cool Instagram photos and respond by decrying their own boring lives, I whip out my tried and true lecture entitled The Problem with Social Media and wax on and on about the insidious nature of the filtered, photoshopped, edited, culled and selectively presented Beautiful Life we think everyone but us is having. And I imme...
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And I'll Raise You 5: Wherein a Cynic Rethinks Some Things
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Wherein a Cynic Rethinks Some Things. All those awesome happy beautiful good life photos we see on social media: they're all a total crock, right? When my kids see their friends' super cool Instagram photos and respond by decrying their own boring lives, I whip out my tried and true lecture entitled The Problem with Social Media and wax on and on about the insidious nature of the filtered, photoshopped, edited, culled and selectively presented Beautiful Life we think everyone but us is having. And I imme...
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And I'll Raise You 5: May 2014
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Creativity Cures the Crazies. Yeah, so it's been crazy around here. Like 15 soccer games in one weekend crazy. Like "why did I take on that freelance project? Like three car repairs in one month crazy. Like too many people needing too many socks and too many meals and too many interventions crazy. Seriously people, make some stuff and give it away. It's a freakin' transformational act. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). THE 5 I AM RAISING. Making Me Dizzy In More Ways Than One. NaBloPoMo Wri...
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And I'll Raise You 5: Get Ready to Ramble
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Get Ready to Ramble. I feel a rambling, unfocused post coming along…. I received an honest to goodness piece of mail on Friday, a card from a good friend. Tears, people. I shed tears. She wrote such lovely things about our friendship, such good reminders to me of what really matters, and what really doesn't, and she wrote in an actual card, not in a Facebook post. Such novelty! A better presence, a better Lover of Life. None of that got done. Exactly NONE. One small thing did. I stared at her a lot.
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And I'll Raise You 5: June 2014
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You know you have a big family when. 8230;your teenager sees baby doll feet poking out from underneath a pillow and momentarily panics that there has been a serious mishap with a baby. Some baby. Not sure whose baby, but somebody's baby. Because there have in the past always been lots of babies around here. Poor kid. He came upstairs half laughing, half crying in relief that he did not, in fact, stumble upon the scene of a homicide. Links to this post. Labels: do you have a big family? Does it dry up.
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And I'll Raise You 5: July 2014
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Note: first published December 2007. Reprising today because I need the reminder. I went to the grocery store tonight, because dinner was, well.waffles.and we were out of powdered sugar. (What? You've never had pizza for breakfast? This reminded me of my friend Nicole's musings. On rushing our children through the day. Elizabeth provided me with today's reminder to stop and be in Advent. This should be a time of waiting, not rushing. A time of being present to each other, being presents. THE BEST OF AIRY5.
