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Applying sunscreen
Bicycling
Chasing fireflies
Dealing cards
Eating blueberries
Fortifying sand castles
Gathering seashells
Hosting friends
Inventing games
Jumping rope
Killing time
Licking popsicles
Making lemonade
Nursing cuts and scrapes
Ordering ice cream
Playing croquet
Quibbling with siblings
Racing through the sprinkler
Splashing in the pool
Traveling to the beach
Uncovering sand crabs
Viewing the night sky
Wading in lakes
X-tra late bedtimes
Yawning
Zzzzz’s

by Slouching Mom

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We visited my parents’ new home today ( they’re blogging about it here), to see how things were coming along. It’s due to be ready in a few weeks, and so we wanted to see some of the “behind the scene” stuff. What we discovered when we got there touched my heart more than I […]

When you are the parent of twins you experience some benefits of having two the same age as well as some drawbacks. I won’t get into how traumatic my girls early arrival was and how having two infants was more stress than I could have ever imagined, so maybe another time. What I’ve noticed, though, […]

My dad traveled a lot when I was a child. He brought things home with him. For my mom, it was china cups. For my sister, spoons. For me, most often, vehicles.
He brought me cars and trucks, little ones, Matchbox. Because he traveled in western Canada, they often were the original English ones.
Once he brought […]

My husband doesn’t travel very often. I think this is why my twin daughters react like the world coming to an end whenever he goes on a business trip. Recently he traveled two weeks in a row, which is unheard of for his line of work. The first week he left on Sunday and it […]

by Stu Mark

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You know that gut-wrenching yet relieving moment when you hand your child over to strangers?
Well, I don’t.
Along with the storied advantages to being a stay-at-home parent (read: “Let’s go to the beach on Wednesday!”) comes one great drawback: Boobaby, my brave little girl of nearly 30 months, has never learned to be babysat.
My wife and […]

I recently shared the news on my personal blog that my marriage is ending. I know I don’t have to go into how devastated and frustrated and sad I feel. This is not something I would have ever wanted, yet it has become "the right thing." So, here I am, trying to do the right […]

I’m writing this poolside at our gym, watching swimming classes. My kids aren’t in the water right now, but I’ll have the pleasure of watching their classes in a couple of weeks.
How do you teach children to swim when you don’t know whether they’ve ever been in water before? This was the problem Peter and […]

Every time someone asks me how Max is doing, I say the same thing: “Fine; talking like crazy.” Which is true - that kid of mine, he’s a talker. Then again, I’m a talker, so maybe it’s one of those things where the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.
The thing is, I am amazed, […]