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Showing Charlie

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Alex and I have been reading about Frog and Toad lately. I don’t really remember Frog and Toad from my childhood reading, which probably means I never read about them (my early reader days were filled with Enid Blyton), but I really like the books we’ve read from the library: [...]

Today I was catching up on the newspaper and came across this question and answer from a recent “Miss Manners” column:

Dear Miss Manners: My daughter recently had a miscarriage, and a relative said, “Well, there are worse things that could happen.” I thought that was pretty insensitive. Why not just say “I’m sorry”?

Gentle [...]

Climbing

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Oh, we’ve been lucky. March has been beautiful in our part of New England. We’ve had some rain, but we’ve also had some gorgeous blue sky days with temperatures in the 60s. The boys and I have been out enjoying it at playgrounds, parks, and just in the yard. Yay for [...]

Brothers

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We are finally coming out of birthday season around here. It started back at Thanksgiving with Marty’s birthday, and ended earlier this month with Alex’s. All of us are now a year older. And with Valentine’s day and Christmas in there too, I feel like we have been eating sweets constantly [...]