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Terms of Endearment

These are the moments every mother lives for… the glimpses of pure, unadulterated love that make all the laundry, tantrums, uneaten dinners, and invasions of privacy so very, very worth it. And lucky me, I was gifted with three unsolicited gems, all in the same week. From Savannah (just before bed, with a sleepy smile and [...]

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Whatever Happened to Cooties?

Yesterday, while we were driving to meet Lara & Carson for a playdate, Savannah informed me that — at the tender age of five — she already has three boyfriends. “Oh, really?” I asked, adopting my best casual tone so as to keep her talking. “And who are they?” She ticked them off on her fingers, [...]

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Rules We Break

If parents went to jail for trivial transgressions, John and I would be on permanent lockdown. After our first daughter was born — and probably up until the time she started cutting teeth — we did our best to follow the mental rule book we’d pieced together from parents’ well-meaning advice, snippets of TLC shows, [...]

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Seen & Heard…

…around the Rudy household this week: Claire, in her booster seat at the kitchen table, using a crayon as a fork — literally! Gripping a sharp green Crayola, she was spearing pieces of cheese on the end of it and feeding them to herself before going back for more. John, quoted during a particularly chaotic family dinner [...]

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