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have you heard about the new-ish trend? i bet you have if you've got regular contact with tweenage girls and their likes and dislikes. ...

"Padiddle!" i yelled excitedly as we drove home tonight. my husband looked at me strangely and smiled slightly, wondering what th...

since we've been taking some strange pictures around here recently, i thought i'd show some fun ones i got of brooke as well. she...

i had a friend many years ago named Kate. we spent a lot of time together my senior year of high school and for a couple years after that. ...

sometimes it's said of a kid that "they're in a hurry to grow up." i think i was kind of like that, except i wanted to sk...

i always like learning new things about people. i also like holding some things about myself back in reserve to whip out and surprise people...

while out walking with my honey last night, we stumbled into an amusing conversation. it was about power, or more accurately, the feeling of...

there are times when life feels unfair. there are no good reasons and yet, things happen anyway. we can't control them, they're just...

today we were reading a science book for school about bad smells. i know, i've talked a lot lately about stuff we're doing for schoo...

i posted this right after thanksgiving last year, but i think i had all of 30 followers then, so i thought i'd repost since it's the...

as kids, we all have dreams and goals for ourselves. one of mine was to catch a lizard. i grew up in new york where lizards aren't gener...

when you're a kid and you have siblings close to your age, you find things to do to keep yourselves amused. you make up games and songs ...

i'm resurrecting one of my favorite posts since things in my brain have been too hectic to present new material. i posted it about a yea...

when i was a junior in high school, my whole family (consisting of 2 parents, 2 teenagers and 2 toddlers) took a month long drive from our h...

my little girl just turned 9. and somehow 9 seems different than all the ages that have come before. it's the place where i really rem...

do you guys remember back when you were a tween (though we weren't called that) or early teen and you and your friends talked and though...

tonight i was tucking the kid in & kissing her goodnight and i had a flashback to my own childhood. you see, she's sleeping in a pil...