Tag: Motherhood
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Birthday Parties
Robert was invited to a classmate’s birthday party. Not only was it going to be the first classmate’s birthday party he’d been invited to attend, but it was also going to be a pool party. Needless to say, I was feeling a bit nervous about it. I wasn’t sure what to expect. Robert has taken…
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Happy New Year
Everywhere you look it seems as though someone is talking or writing about this notion of “NEW DECADE! NEW YOU!”, as if tearing off a page from the calendar suddenly transforms us. While I don’t necessarily think you need to become a “NEW YOU”, I do think that this torn calendar page represents a time…
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The Tooth Fairy
Early autumn we noticed that Robert was growing “shark teeth”. This happens when adult teeth grow in behind the baby teeth. I looked it up out of concern, only to discover it is a fairly common phenomenon for children. The search results indicated that it was best to encourage the child to wiggle free their…
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Tis the season
‘Tis the season. While friends and family prepare their homes for the arrival of Santa Claus, we battle one virus after another. Croup has already hit our home this year, going from one boy to the next. It took a lot out of us, physically draining the boys and consuming us with worry. As a…
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Changer le monde
I wrote “Croup, Care & Comfort” a couple of weeks ago. It initially started off as a way for me to process what had happened to Robert – and putting “pen to paper” so to speak, was an ideal way for me to process. Je l’ai écrit en anglais pour que mes mots et émotions…
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