When School Vacations Go Bad
Another in my backlog of Mulberry posts… Scene: I’m sitting on the couch enjoying a few minutes of down time during Thanksgiving break, when The Five-Year-Old…
If The Five-Year-Old were President
“I miss Finz,” The Five-Year-Old said one afternoon as we were driving past the site of her favorite (and now closed) seafood restaurant. “I wish I…
If you draw a preschooler a mouse
If you draw a preschooler a mouse, She’ll tell you he looks hungry, and ask you to draw him a plate of cheese. When you draw…
How to get your child to hate St. Patrick’s Day
And maybe vegetables. Mommyo: “It’s St. Patrick’s Day, The Five-Year-Old, do you know what that means?” The Five-Year-Old, excitedly: “The leprechauns filled my pot with leprechaun…
Leprechaun money
It’s School Vacation Week again (well really more of a School Vacation Long Weekend), which in our family means a visit to a painting room of…
Happy Birthday, Santa!
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In which The Four-Year-Old tells it like it is
The loss of a pet is tremendously sad. But even in the most heart-breaking moments, life with The Four-Year-Old forces you to make room for laughter.…
In which The Four-Year-Old Invents a New Yoga Pose
The Four-Year-Old: “Mommyo, did you know I have a helicopter pose?” Mommyo: “You do? Can I see it?” The Four-Year-Old, jumping up and down: “All you…
The Plausible Cheering Squad
For various reasons my attention lately has not been directed toward housekeeping, and my house shows it. I’m not a perfectly neat person in normal times,…
“How do you know what Sparky says?”
Early Friday morning, well before sunrise, The Four-Year-Old clambered onto the couch next to me, her sleeping friend Sparky in hand. In what I thought was…
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