Category: kids
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Conversations with Boy #3
I finally told Boy #3 all about me. My mind is blown. First I told him that I was going to change my name soon. Then we talked about how the doctor asked him at his last appointment if he identifies as a boy. I asked him if he knew why she asked him that…
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Super Disappointment
I am a Philadelphia Eagles fan. Although I am not officially from the Philly area, the ex’s family is, so that made my love of the Eagles “acceptable.” The real reason I love the Eagles is because I grew up in Syracuse, NY watching Donovan McNabb play college ball there and I followed him to…
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Piggies!!
Three weeks ago we made a deal with Girl and Boy #3…keep your room clean for one month and you can get a small animal in a cage like a gerbil, guinea pig, chinchilla, hedgehog, whatever. They went back and forth for awhile about what they wanted and settled on a guinea pig. Then the…
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Daily Prompt 2/9/23
Do you need a break? From what? I need a break from taking on too much responsibility for things I cannot control. It’s still something I struggle with regularly. I feel so responsible for so many things that go wrong; things that I absolutely have no control to change. Stupid things like feeling guilty because…
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Summing up a life
The funeral was today. As expected, it was difficult. As an empathetic person, I felt sadness all around me. There were pictures of her scrolling on the tv the entire time. And wouldn’t you know it, every single picture of her with a birthday cake in front of her was all smiles of pure joy.…
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SNOW DAY!
The kids are off from school today and my wife decided to close her workplace as well because of the weather. We got some snow and there is rain projected for later on this afternoon. It’s nice to have an unexpected day off in the middle of the week! Girl had her physical today and…
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Daily Prompt 12/28
Have you ever been in an automobile accident? Yes, several and none have been my fault. The most recent was 2012. I was going straight in the right lane on a busy 4 lane road. Someone in the left lane waved a person from the other side to turn in front of them. The person…
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Kentucky, coming and going
Yesterday we had to take the kids halfway to FL to send them off with their other parent. 7 hours there, and 8 hours back, a little rain both ways, but nothing too terrible. What was the strangest part is all the packing they had to do and how we had to make sure we…
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Math
Boy #3 is headed back to the Math Tournament this coming March! He’s very excited to go. He participated in the mental math category, where you write your answers in pencil and get no scratch paper to figure things out. He won second place and got a trophy last time. He’s hoping for first place…
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Sick kid…again
Girl is sick. Boy #3 was sick two weeks ago. I was sick twice in the last 6 weeks, as was my wife. Boy #2 was sick in the same span of time, but not severe enough to need much of anything from me. He handled his own symptoms just fine. But man, these past…