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First Gasp Of Summer

May 31, 2010

Oh! Summer! You’re here, and welcome. What a beautiful year it’s been. We had this long gentle spring and then *boom* one day I walked out the door and the roses were in full bloom. This holiday weekend has been a long, sweet introduction to summer, filled with more BBQs, beach outings and birthday parties [...]

Tagged as: beach, beaches, big stick, day, little girls, outdoor recreation, serena, summer, summer beach, water

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Naptime Fail

April 21, 2010

You can tell naptime is a bust when the cute toddler lying next to you in bed goes from pretending to snore loudly to singing this song: Happy Birthday To You My mom fired a duck. I am two and three quarters. I miss my mom all day. Hers are at work. I miss hers [...]

Tagged as: funny, serena

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Too Old School to Be Cool

April 20, 2010

Martin and I just had a great conversation about money, career, long-term plans. The kind of conversation you want to have with your spouse. We chatted in peace about our jobs and the things we love to do and the way we see our life unfolding for about twenty minutes while our daughters played happily [...]

Tagged as: conversation, cooler, cooler kids, family, fist bump, funny, gestures, greetings, hip, martin, old school, schooling

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Speaking Of A Room Of One’s Own

March 17, 2010

This post brought to you by Rio. I had another whole screed planned about the business of blogging and how women are being consumed by big media and advertising agencies, but it will have to wait. Rio had a topic request for today. It went like this: Rio said, “What is the New York Times, [...]

Tagged as: family, funny, house project, parenting, rio

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Can’t Sleep Without A Princess

March 5, 2010

Serena’s been a bit of a bedtime rebel lately. She’s mostly sleeping through the night, waking up only briefly to pee and get a glass of water around 2 a.m. But she just not falling asleep at bedtime. She goes through the whole bath-book-bed routine with her dad and sister. Rio drops off to sleep [...]

Tagged as: ariel, barbie, bedtime, belle, childhood, disney princess, distracted, dolls, fall asleep, princess belle, princesses, serena, sleep, sleeping, sweet girls

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This Will Help

February 26, 2010

Remember that awful feeling of pressure in your eardrums going up or coming down in a plane as a kid? On our trip home the other day, Rio described it as being “like knives in my ears”. I suddenly had this intense sense memory of that exact feeling. Awful. Maybe my least favorite part of [...]

Tagged as: air travel, airplanes, biology, chew, chewing gum, confectionery, ear, ear hurt, eardrum, funny, hurt, kids, mama, pop, serena, toddlers

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Will this hurt?

January 31, 2010

Rio, holding a hair clip up to her lip as if to pin her lip with it: Will this hurt? Her aunt: Probably. Me: I wouldn’t do it. Rio does it. Rio: You guys are Wrong. Long pause. I take her picture. She takes the clip off. Longer pause. Rio: Is my lip bleeding?

Tagged as: funny, rio

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Baby’s First Knock-Knock Joke

January 22, 2010

Serena: Whooooooo’s there? The Person She Is Talking To: ignores her. Serena: You say, “knock, knock” Her Interlocutor: Oh! Ok. Knock, knock. Serena: Whooooooo’s there? Her Interlocutor: the Doctor Serena: OK! Come on in!

Tagged as: funny, serena

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Naked Sex With Barbies

January 12, 2010

Awhile back, Rio wanted to go play at a friend’s house. Let’s call this friend X. I was lying in bed with the covers over my head pretending to be asleep while she negotiated this with her dad. He was trying to persuade her to have her friend over at our house instead of going [...]

Tagged as: education, parenting, princesses, rio, sex

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Serena vs. Nori

December 29, 2009

In the further adventures of Serena and food: we went to a friend’s house this evening where they were making sushi. We offered her some and she complained that it was stinky in her nose and turned her face away. She pretended to be shy, and demanded to be taken into another room and read [...]