Month: September 2017

“Mom, what makes me special?”

.Reading time 7 minutes.

#2 Cherub came home from her first day of 7th grade yesterday and asked, “What makes me special?” I thought this might be a preface to her upcoming birthday, but it was homework, a getting-to-know-you worksheet from one of her teachers.  (The worksheet also required her to calculate how many days she’s been alive. As […]

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All the Hallelujahs

.Reading time 3 minutes.

The Cherubs are back in school, and I’m relaxed for the first time since June :) Summers, historically, are not our best season as a family. This one was no different. Most of the time, I felt like this Bart Simpson doll: And yet, as I scroll through pictures in order to curate a perfect internet […]

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