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On the Brink of the School-aged Years

August 5, 2016 – 1:24 pm

Two things happened yesterday that helped clarify an uneasiness I’ve felt all summer. • I took the kids to the zoo with only a small backpack filled with three water bottles and a few essentials. We’ve been handling zoo trips this way for quite some time. But this visit, zipping around strollers filled with children […]

By kara | Posted in All | Also tagged growing up, James, older, Owen, Sophie | Comments (2)

Days Like This

December 9, 2014 – 4:56 pm

I need to talk about today. Because today has been, well, awful. Everyone’s sick. That’s not true. James and Sophie went to school today. But everyone has been sick, at some point, since Thanksgiving. For all of us it’s been a feverish cold but then today Owen threw up his toast. And now he’s hungry […]

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Sophie’s First Day of Kindergarten

August 20, 2013 – 9:56 am

She said she hardly slept but I know that’s not true. I know that, because I hardly slept and I checked on her several times throughout the night, catching her fast asleep in her bed and later, in the early hours of the morning, in our bed. When she did wake she wanted to go. […]

By kara | Posted in All | Also tagged beginning, fort thomas, Jill's Jewelry, kindergarten, necklace, parenthood, Sophie, start, The Kissing Hand, walk, woodfill elementary | Comments (2)

Woodfill’s Big Top Festival (Year Two)

October 19, 2011 – 8:53 pm

A couple weeks ago we walked down the street to Woodfill Elementary (where Sophie will go to school) for their annual Big Top Festival. We went last year for the first time, and Sophie loved it. A lollipop, a dandelion ripe for wish making and pink hair—a 3-1/2-year-old’s dream Saturday afternoon. happiness “Life is a […]

By kara | Posted in All | Also tagged family, festival | Comments (0)
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