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About Some Boys (and their mom): October 2007
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Thursday, October 25, 2007. Sort of. Only certain kinds of candy, though. This just in: Boy Wonder has received his first Pez dispenser. His latest October-birthday classmate (there are 10 kids in his class, and FOUR of them have birthdays in October) brought in party favor bags on Tuesday, and they were a Boy Wonder dream: a Spiderman cup, a Halloween pencil, fruit-flavored candy, Tootsie Rolls ("For you, Mommy!
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About Some Boys (and their mom): January 2008
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Tuesday, January 01, 2008. Happy holidays from the Friends of Spidey. More later! Mother, wife, bookworm, Leo. Full-time editor; part-time bookseller. Accompanied in all endeavors by Dragon (spouse), Boy Wonder (Son the Elder), Action Hero (Son the Younger), and Charming Bungalow (the house). View my complete profile.
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About Some Boys (and their mom): December 2007
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Sunday, December 09, 2007. So are the days of my life. First, there was Halloween. And lo, my kids were cute! Then, there was Thanksgiving! And then, there was.sewage! Charming Bungalow, like many old houses, seems to really enjoy knocking us for a loop every once in a while. (Bats in the attic! Bat in the basement! Birds in the eaves! Mice in the garage! So are the days of my life. View my complete profile.
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About Some Boys (and their mom): Triumph of the cake
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Monday, April 06, 2009. Triumph of the cake. Yesterday was Action Hero's third birthday. Since Boy Wonder's birthday is in three weeks, Easter is next Sunday, and our family schedule has been JUST A BIT thrown off lately, we are celebrating both boys' birthdays AND Easter on, well, Easter. So we had a low-key little celebration here yesterday, for which I baked a cake. I will NOT like it! I want a YELLOW cake! Only I ...
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About Some Boys (and their mom): September 2008
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Sunday, September 28, 2008. From Boy Wonder. Given to Action Hero, who was afraid of the car wash today and became a little weepy. Action Hero, I need to tell you something. When I was three, I was very scared of the car wash! I cried all the time when we went to the car wash.* But then I learned a lesson.* And when I was four, I wasn't afraid of the car wash anymore! Saturday, September 27, 2008. The above is actuall...
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About Some Boys (and their mom): Black swan, white wine
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Saturday, September 27, 2008. Black swan, white wine. The above is actually a pretty good book, filled with quality novellas and short stories, and Misses Datlow and Windling should in no way be blamed for the fact that I have consumed so much Black Swan Riesling tonight that my nose is numb. They are good editors. I own many of their anthologies.). NO FAIR. He cannot have Kool-Aid for breakfast? As dinner was cooking...
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About Some Boys (and their mom): April 2009
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Monday, April 06, 2009. Triumph of the cake. Yesterday was Action Hero's third birthday. Since Boy Wonder's birthday is in three weeks, Easter is next Sunday, and our family schedule has been JUST A BIT thrown off lately, we are celebrating both boys' birthdays AND Easter on, well, Easter. So we had a low-key little celebration here yesterday, for which I baked a cake. I will NOT like it! I want a YELLOW cake! Only I ...
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About Some Boys (and their mom): Free advice
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Sunday, September 28, 2008. From Boy Wonder. Given to Action Hero, who was afraid of the car wash today and became a little weepy. Action Hero, I need to tell you something. When I was three, I was very scared of the car wash! I cried all the time when we went to the car wash.* But then I learned a lesson.* And when I was four, I wasn't afraid of the car wash anymore! Black swan, white wine. View my complete profile.
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About Some Boys (and their mom): Blank. Verse.
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Friday, March 06, 2009. I always thought her hands were so elegant. Much more so than mine). With long slender fingers. And nails that actually grew nicely. Instead of breaking every fifteen seconds. And then they were skeletal and shaky. But somehow more elegant than ever. He put on his coat to leave, and she said,. Where are you going? And he said, The gra-.uh. Where you'll be b-. And she knew what he meant,. Its Oc...
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About Some Boys (and their mom): August 2008
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About Some Boys (and their mom). Parenting my sons/ mourning my mother/ finding myself. Wednesday, August 06, 2008. Not actually "shocks," but "aftermoments of mild startlement" just doesn't have the same ring.). Were you digging around in the box of Christmas lights? Uh, no.". Well, damn. I guess they did mess around in the basement after all.". A quick check revealed that all of our holiday decorations appeared intact, complete with Sesame Street's holiday-themed DVDs. At least we still have. I request...