The kid and I were reading a book the other night. She reads for a while, and then I read for awhile. I don’t always follow along when she’s reading, so I was a little confused when she read: Etickk, etickk, etickk. What?? And then I scanned the pages to see if I could identify …
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A few weeks ago the kid needed a jar, so I gave her one of the canning jars that her dad didn’t use. When I asked her what she needed a jar for she told me it was a “Swear Jar” and that whenever someone swore she was going to charge them $3.00. $3.00!! I …
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The other day the kid and I were at the dog park. Josie never wants to play with us, she’s too busy stirring up chaos with any other dog that is willing to do the I’m-a-crazy-puppy-stuck-in-a-big-dog-body-and-I-gotta-stir-up-the-chaos romp around the park. Maisy never wants to play with us, but she keeps a very close on her …
[ Continue Reading... ]Zoe: How many eggs are in an egg carton? Me: A dozen. Zoe: How many is a dozen? Little did I know she was about to ask me one of my least favorite things — a word math problem. Zoe: If I had 15 chickens and each chicken laid one egg a day for a month, …
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Tonight my daughter asked me about generations. And I don’t remember the exact way she asked it, but it was pretty obvious that she did not know what a generation was. So I told her, and while I was explaining to her everyone that was in her generation she started to laugh. “Mom, this girl …
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