It’s been an unexpected and challenging year for a lot of parents who have taken on the additional job of homeschool teacher during COVID.
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My girls love playing I Spy in our back yard, sitting on my hammock. Spending so much time at home, they have gone through almost everything at this point. At least that’s what I thought.
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I rarely, if ever, get choked up about celebrity deaths. And I didn’t even like Kobe Bryant when he was playing. But learning about what he was doing after he retired, that helicopter crash hit hard.
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Olyve lost her first tooth on Saturday night, which is good because the new one was already coming in and it looked like a shark tooth lurking in the back.
Sunday morning, I’m in the kitchen filling the Nespresso water tank and trying to get my caffeine fix. Olyve comes downstairs and excitedly says “the tooth fairy left me money!”
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My 3.5 year old daughter is not from this planet. She has mastered the art of flipping teachable moments in the most agonizing but also hilarious ways. Here are some examples.
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I am at the park with my kids on an unusually chilly July morning. This park is AWESOME. It has a zip line, really big slides and—ok, I’m just the parent.
It’s mid-morning and I hear a pop-pop-pop off in the distance. I think to myself, leftover Fourth of July fireworks. But a part of me wonders—if I were a teenager, would I be up and setting off fireworks on some random morning?
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Until recently my repertoire in doing my girls’ hair has been very limited, as in a single pony tail.
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