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The Five-Year-Old writes to Santa

In the middle of writing a letter to Santa, something rather unsettling occurred to The Five-Year-Old: “Mommyo, when Santa brings you kitties, are they already spayed?” Mommyo: “Yes.” The Five-Year-Old, crossing out something in her letter to Santa: “Oh. I … Continue reading

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“Did kittens get their name in Britain?”

Sometime last year, The Five-Year-Old discovered the highly informative children’s book series “The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That.” The books relay all kinds of fun facts about the natural world in a Seussian rhyme scheme. The … Continue reading

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In which my daughter negotiates her first hourly rate

Preschooler, evaluating whether or not she’d like to volunteer with her mother at the local animal shelter: “Will they pay us in free kittens?”

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