It’s his fourth year playing football with full pads. But the boys are bigger now. Much bigger than when they all started three years ago in third grade. Of course, some are veeerrrry large. My stomach turns a bit now at every tackle. I worry about every kid out there. My son is fast. He [...]
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The season of Christmas lights and candles is upon us. This Best Shot Monday is Manic Monday — my confusion about fire safety. Of course, once you start lifting rocks to find out what’s underneath, you find things you had not expected. First, let me say that I love Safety Town. Last summer, when we [...]
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All four of them, even the little ones, sit through the long text that appears on each page of this version of The Wizard of Oz, wonderfully illustrated by Charles Santore. What’s different here from the movie? Aunt Em is described as a young, pretty wife, soon changed by the sun and wind: “they [...]
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I wish I had my act together. The trouble is, there is this underlying current of chaos running underneath everything I try to accomplish. As I stood with another Mom of four boys during the games, she sighed and said, “if only it wasn’t such an awful mess when they eat.” I stopped her and [...]
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