Scene: Driving home. VIOLET: Mom, when is dinner? ME: Dinner was two hours ago and you didn’t eat it. That’s it. V: But Mom! I’m hungry! I want dinner! M: I guess you missed your chance to eat dinner. I’m not making you another one. V (furiously): If you don’t make me something to eat, […]
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We got an invitation a few weeks ago to a kid birthday party. In it I was amazed to find a note indicating where the child was registered for gifts. I have to admit that I was, well, a little creeped out. Imagining any kid wandering through a toy store, marking down all the items […]
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Rob and I spent half of Labor Day on the phone to various hospitals while helicoptering around splint-sporting Graham, who seemed determined to fall and completely sever his already broken arm. Turns out the clinic doctor was right; no one would cast an arm on a holiday, and most likely the doctors would’ve told us […]
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