Posts Tagged ‘kids’

Fear of Fear

Fear of Fear

As a child I slept under my trundle bed — that’s right, I said, *under* the trundle bed. I would spend my nights dreaming of how to close up the windows in my house and that if for some reason I was not found by the boogey man, how I’d escape and save my family [...]

No Boobies from Santa, Please

I took the Things to Toys’R’Us yesterday to get their much deserved Pokemon cards and to get ideas for Christmas gifts. I am thinking, like all of us these days, that Santa is on a Budget and might want a little lead-time on gifts. Strolling the aisles went from being a fun adventure to a [...]

Toothless Wonder

The tooth fairy has made an appearance twice in the past week. My Thing 1 lost his two front teeth, proudly earning the right to stick his tongue through the gaping hole in his mouth.
He looks adorable and older and excited. Every time he smiles, I smile more and hurt just a bit. I can [...]

Yeah, Likely Swine Flu. So What?

It started the night of my brother’s wedding: chills, nausea and severe headache. Thing 1 was sick. One day turned to three, then six, then 12. At two weeks, after begging for a flu test, the pediatrician finally told me that it was completely possible my son had Swine Flu, but there was nothing to [...]

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