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Beauty Found While Mashing Avocado

February 28, 2011 – 5:06 pm

This past Christmas my parents gave my sister, brother and I each a handmade mortar and pestle, which they found at a little store called L’autedu during a recent visit to Cinque Terre, Italy. Andy and I spent a couple days in Cinque Terre on our honeymoon. Five villages hug a terraced coastline along northern […]

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Being a Toddler Can Be Tough

February 22, 2011 – 11:35 pm

Sophie, taken January 29 “When the toddler does something and there are consequences for his action civilization begins.” —Alicia F. Lieberman

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Jumping Can Be Hard Work

February 22, 2011 – 11:19 pm

James, taken January 25 “Life is a long process of getting tired.” —Samuel Butler

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Lizz’s Birthday

February 22, 2011 – 11:13 pm

Mid-January Andy’s sister Lizz came for a visit, along with her boyfriend, Eric, and Andy’s parents. Sophie baked a cake (with help) for a belated birthday party for her aunt. We had such a nice visit—we just with it had been longer! “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who […]

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Sophie’s Room

February 22, 2011 – 10:28 pm

Sophie’s room is slowly coming together. Months ago Andy’s Dad painted her bead board white, three walls a soft pink and perfect stripes on the wall behind her bed (quite different from the grownup, wallpapered nautical theme it used to be, when we moved in). And recently my mom brought over a beautiful, handmade quilt […]

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Thankfully, Sophie Did Not Witness This

February 19, 2011 – 12:26 am

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.” —Plato

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Window Breaths

February 12, 2011 – 1:12 am

I love her soft clouds of hot breath on our cold, old windows. I keep promising her soon, soon, we can spend hours, once again, playing outside. “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus

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Overthinking, as a Parent

February 11, 2011 – 12:44 am

Today, Sophie was swinging her legs, sitting in a Bumbo (which was precariously perched on our ottoman) and watching Finding Nemo when she said, “Remember that day when Daddy came home and I was upstairs and I wanted to see him so I came downstairs but I fell down the stairs?” “What?” I asked. “Remember […]

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Young Love

February 9, 2011 – 1:04 am

Owen: “So Hannah, do you come here often?” James: “Seriously, Owen, do you have to hit on every woman that comes into this house? You really should be spending your time enhancing your intellect with books, like I do.” Hannah: “James, I didn’t see you over there! You sound very smart.” Owen: “Ignore him! Pay […]

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Mom Friends

February 6, 2011 – 1:57 am

This week I stopped by a new bakery in Fort Thomas, Cake Towne, to buy a small chocolate cake with peanut butter icing. Six months ago this trip would have seemed impossible to me. I had all three kids with me. I didn’t know the parking situation. It was cold. I had no idea how […]

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