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Laura Scarborough
a word I hate
Bill and I got together with his sister for a couple of drinks. It’s been awhile since it was just us grown-ups so in spite of the horrid headache I had, I was looking forward to our evening together. We ended up at a local club…I’m being generous when I refer to it as a [...]
there’s 104 days (give or take) of summer vacation & school comes along just to end it
And yes, the annual problem, here under the Big Top is finding a good way to spend it. But as summer vacation draws to a close, we have other problems, other dilemmas, other challenges.
The biggest challenge, at the moment, is three of my circus clowns are going on to new schools…to college, to high school [...]
(re)learning toddler-ese
Hazel is talking up a blue streak these days…and portions of conversations with her are actually coherent. I mean she is using full sentences and we are actually engaging in a back and forth exchange of ideas.
Fancy that!
Then there are the moments where she is talking to me in earnest and I can’t understand a [...]
with sincere apologies
Today I managed to insult and hurt a total stranger…Lucy’s beautiful, delightful mother turned 80 today and had the misfortune of coming across my flip attempt at being humorous and thinking like a snarky, irritated-with-life young teenager. I mistakenly thought I had some expertise with at least understanding the thought process of a young adolescent [...]
the ease of annoyance
There are times where it seems that all we do as parents is annoy our children.
like when we make them go to bed at a regular time
or when we make them change their underwear…every day!
wash behind their ears
clean up their room
give Great-Aunt Martha a hug even if she does smell like moldy roses because she [...]
thirty years later…
…and my face is STILL breaking out! Seriously, I am about to get on a plane and fly back home to Pittsburgh, PA by way of Charlotte, North Carolina to attend my thirtieth high school reunion and I have a big, fat, freakin’ zit on my chin in a spot that can not be artfully [...]
being a father
At a time of reproductive freedom for women, fatherhood must be more than a matter of DNA. A man must choose to be a father in the same way that a woman chooses to be a mother. ~Mel Feit
I think of that quote every time I see Ben and Hazel together. They don’t share the [...]
on the road again…kind of, sort of
Recuperating from a hip stress fracture and groin injury the last month and a half has been no picnic. I hear it has been hard on my family and those closest to me as well. Apparently I whine. I whine a lot. What can I say? I am a busy mom who was forced off [...]
heartbreak
Being a parent can sometimes be heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking and painful. Tuesday a fellow blogger and woman whom I admired for her writing and fearless parenting announced the death of her beloved first born child, Henry. Katie Allison Granju had only recently bravely shared the struggles she and her family were going through dealing with [...]
thirty
I remember it like it was yesterday. On the eve of my mother’s 30th birthday I went to bed certain that the world was ending the very next day. My bedtime prayers reflected this certainty. I prayed that all would be forgiven for the time that I made fun of my best friend and for [...]
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