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Girls Growing Up

AmericanFamily — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:37:55 +0000

It only took 5 days for someone to refill the toilet paper roll. Who finally stepped up, acted like a responsible adult and did it?

Five year old L.

Jeesh.

Two other members of this family will be getting a lecture today and L will get a small treat of some sort and some [...]

Things I Am Trying to Teach My Daughters

AmericanFamily — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:27:19 +0000

The lovely Princess Nebraska has a post called “Things I am trying to teach my 4 year old son“, which is timely because I could use a minute to remember that I my job is bigger than just sacrificing my sanity to the mini dictators I call my children for no good reason.

So with [...]

So long. Farewell. Auf Wiedersehen. Zai Jian.

AmericanFamily — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:07:55 +0000

My dearest readers and friends in the computer,

I have been thinking about closing up shop here for quite a while. It is time to admit that my blogging mojo is gone.

I started this blog just days before M’s first birthday and now she is a strapping 7 1/2 year old. When [...]

A lovely day

AmericanFamily — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:16:29 +0000

Today, we finally got around to visiting the Wilds. It is a giant natural animal conservatory, kind of like a zoo but without cages. It is located not far from where I went to high school, in the middle of rural southeastern Ohio. It is located on land that was previously a giant surface mine [...]

Books & pop culture & Toys

AmericanFamily — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:59:29 +0000

I am going to combine my answer to a couple different questions about books. Thankfully, these were not too difficult to answer because while I was writing L decided to have a 45 minute tantrum to prove that she IS NOT TIRED. I am so very convince now that she doesn’t need a nap.

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