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Toddlerisms

There’s a man in my bed.

January 19, 2009

But it’s not what you think. I’m taking a self-imposed man break (in case you hadn’t noticed) and Benjamin has subsequently ended up in my bed. It’s a long story, read about it here – please – I really need advice on the co-sleeping thing. As single parents, I imagine, we have an entirely different take on the issue.  [...]

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Reality.

January 13, 2009

Benjamin’s dad is buying himself a new car to replace the old one. This is a good thing. His old car was a pile of junk. Benjamin will be safer on his weekly voyages to his house now. But because of his car shopping (not plane ticket shopping -urgh) he couldn’t make it today. So [...]

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Hey, Martha…

October 7, 2008

I picked up Martha Stewart’s Halloween magazine issue with high hopes of finding something, anything, that I could actually make Benjamin for Halloween. And right now the magazine is making for a beautiful coffee table decoration.

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Love at first sight.

August 12, 2008

This weekend I was telling one of my friends how lucky she is to have such an incredibly fulfilling marriage with such an amazing man.They are both blissfully in love and I’m sure they are “soul mates.”

Then she told me about her mother, who was a single mom until she finally met her husband when she was 46-years-old. “You’ll find someone,” she said sweetly.

“You know what though. I might not. And that’ll be okay. Really. Because I’ve already met one soul mate and that’s more than most people meet.”

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The case of the missing tomatoes

July 27, 2008

This summer I did something I’ve never done before… I planted six teeny tiny tomato plants. I’m not a gardner. So this, as you can imagine, was quite an accomplishment. I watered them, staked them and then the yellow flowers showed up, then the green tomatoes. And Benjamin, like any 2.4 year old would be, has [...]

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Playground wars.

July 1, 2008

The playground can be a scary, scary place. Last week on our nightly playground stop Benjamin and I met a mom, her 6-year-old son and her 3-year-old daughter. She had a very thick Russian accent and I spent 15 minutes answering her hard to decipher questions about the area. I wrote down useful websites, drew [...]

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O’ Daddy, Where Art Thou?

June 20, 2008

Benjamin has this nasty little habit of calling every man in sight “Daddy.” I’m sure if his father had a greater presence in his life this wouldn’t be the case. I’ve convinced myself, actually, that he does this because I’m a single mom. It’s just killing me. It happens in the grocery store, at the [...]

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How to Make a Toddler Laugh

June 12, 2008

1. Tell toddler you are going to make him toast for breakfast. 2. Sit him on the counter or the table so he can’t move or run away. 3. When toddler says, “Toeeess?” answer with, “Toes??? You want to eat my toes???!!! NOOOOOO! Please, please, please don’t eat my toes!!!” 4. Jump up and down [...]

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How to get a toddler into the bath.

May 25, 2008

Tell toddler his or her microscopic plastic monkey wants to ride in a boat. Hint: Make monkey whisper in your ear. Act alarmed and sad when plastic monkey tells you he’s never, ever been in a boat before. Ask toddler if he or she knows where the monkey can find a boat. Remind toddler of [...]

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“They Repeat.”

May 15, 2008

My best friend Mia mouthed this to me the other night while Benjamin and Sydney, her four year old daughter, were huddled beneath us eating cookies. I had been talking about another adult, someone everyone in the room knows and has contact with frequently. Bad mommy. And naive mommy. I may know a lot about [...]

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