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Boy Quotes
June 16, 2020 Kristen

Mattress Sledding and “Watching the Obituaries!”

Sweet Boy#2–Although he is saddened by the death of his precious cactus, he makes lemonade of a sad situation by hiding the dried-out cactus corpse in my bed as a prank. Double fun when Scruffy sits on it instead of me!

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Boy Quotes
June 16, 2020 Kristen

Belly Button Cheese

Sweet Boy#2–Removes our Christmas tree from the stand, whacks his friend with it in an unexpected attack, and then carefully places it back into the stand.

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Boy Quotes
June 16, 2020 Kristen

You call that a scowl?

A Friend of Sweet Boy#2–“OK, Kristen. Prepare yourself!” He then leads in Sweet Boy#2 who has somehow managed to dye both his hair and hands blue/green while at school that day.

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Harrowing/Heartwarming Parent Moment of the Week
June 16, 2020 Kristen

Increase in Peskiness

Also from 12-4-2018 So … what have my three sons been up to lately? Obviously, from the above picture, they

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Breaking News
June 16, 2020 Kristen

An Actual Date!

12-4-2018 Hmmm … I jumped onto the website intent on writing a lovely blog post about how busy my sons

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Boy Quotes
June 16, 2020 Kristen

Boy Quotes

10-23-2018 I was volunteering in Sweet Boy#3’s class and two little girls asked for my help with a math problem.

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March 5, 2020 Kristen

Empty Bug Jars

This was published on December 27th, 2019 … but my website crashed and I lost 16 months of material and

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Harrowing/Heartwarming Parent Moment of the Week
September 29, 2018 Kristen

Barefoot Hikers and Other Oddities

Sometimes, when all we see are the beautiful photos, I think we forget that everyone else’s life is lived out between glorious moments of beauty and all those random tantrums and sulks. This was such a lovely hike, full of real life arguing and grumping, recovery, mud, joy, and splendid splashes.

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Boy Quotes
September 26, 2018 Kristen

Boy Quotes

We find a compromise. He is happy to brush his hair … as long as I let him use the dog’s brush!

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Harrowing/Heartwarming Parent Moment of the Week
September 6, 2018 Kristen

Vacation or Adventure: Part Two

Princess Leia is rushing out to check on her boys as they construct “Stupidopolis.” Yes, they carefully measured the distance to the water hoping that they would have plenty of time to construct an imposing structure, but not so much time that the tide would not destroy it before we had to leave the shore and head back to camp.

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