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For the under-5 set and their families, getting used to the academic calendar comes with growing pains. Just the concept of an academic year “ending” has undone many a young child who thought school would go on forever with this teacher in this room.
From the perspective of young children, summer becomes a time of missing what we used to have, and worrying about what comes next. August is anxious as we ready for new things in September.
September is a time ...
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13
JAN
2025
A gift I didn’t know I needed:
I had a dream that Carol and I and the baby (Lightning Bug) were walking to our car in a grocery store parking lot at night. We saw a figure across the lot under a streetlight. I picked ...
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6
JAN
2025
Well, we waited ’til the tail end of winter, but Lightning Bug finally had her first sledding adventure.
She was nervous and excited about it – her only references were books where characters loved sledding, but the idea of hurtling out of control ...
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30
DEC
2024
Lightning Bug and I are looking at lovely delicate Christmas balls that my cousin gave us. Each ball opens up to reveal a scene that moves as music plays, like a music box.
The first is a train moving through the ...
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5
DEC
2024
We’re still deep in the “Why?” phase of childhood, which is charming and frustrating depending on how many times the question is asked in a row:
(We’re on a walk, pretty far from home)
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25
NOV
2024
November 24, 2022
If you’d told me a couple of years ago I’d be spending Thanksgiving morning in my kitchen cutting up bananas for a 19-month-old who insists on dancing to the Bollywood song “Zoobie Doobie” over and over again … I probably would have believed you, but I wouldn’t have seen the path to get there.
Today I see the path.
Feeling grateful.
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19
NOV
2024
October 31, 2023
You kinda can’t tell ‘cause she’s always in motion, but Lightning Bug is dressed as The French Resistance tonight.
She’s totally in character: When I ask her at each house to say “trick or treat“ she says “no.” When I ask if she’ll say “thank you” after receiving candy she says “no.”
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29
OCT
2024
