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the wounded

April 25, 2011

Rhett(5) has always been tough. I suspect it is a third boy coping mechanism…it is either be tough and spend your day crying. He is a participator. In the middle of everything. Everywhere. No matter the age of the other participants. If there are 10 year old boys playing basketball, he will be under the [...]

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boy vs. food

April 19, 2011

All three of my boys went through various levels of picky eating, food favorites and meal shunning. I expected that Ryan(10) would be the most discerning. It is just his personality to be suspicious of anything. As a toddler he was food-opinionated, but as he has grown he has surprised me with his willingness to [...]

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just a moment

March 20, 2011

Every evening there is a minute. A tiny sliver of the day I cherish. A moment that I have participated in thousands of times with three boys has recently taken on the significance of scarcity. Rhett(5) still asks for me to help him with his bath. He is a force of independence the rest of [...]

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a boy and a one-eared burro

February 22, 2011

instagram picture of boy on burro from iPhone

I have a new iPhone app obsession. Thankfully, it doesn’t include trying to think up words using 7 vowels that can stretch over a triple word score. It is Instagram. You take a picture with your phone and then click on a variety of magical filters, and you look all professional-ish. The other cool thing [...]

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the washcloth people

January 24, 2011

There are two kinds of people in the world… those who use a washcloth and those who don’t. I am the latter. If you are one of the washcloth people, you just audibly gasped in horror and then looked up to the upper right corner of my blog and muttered, “but she looks so clean [...]

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color story

January 19, 2011

boy slides down hill in favorite color coat

There is no way in the world you could get me to choose just one color as my favorite. I love them all. Colors have feelings too. I tend to decorate with the warmer tones. Yellow, Orange and Red are neutral colors in my house. You could pick up a red accessory and place it [...]

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easy cinnamon roll recipe

January 3, 2011

Making these cinnamon rolls is so ridiculously easy that even a 5 year old can do it. Seriously. I am going to prove how easy it is by enlisting the help of my 5 year old, Rhett. Just a few words of warning: If you are enlisting the help of a 5 year old, you [...]

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and a partridge in a pear tree

December 26, 2010

Two boys a dancin’. One lord a leapin’.

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fear of paradise

December 21, 2010

We are staying home for Christmas. It is always that way since blog-Stedman doesn’t usually get the day off let alone the weekend. We make it work. We have been looking casually at places we could visit in the spring after the boys get out of school… Florida. Hawaii. Lake Tahoe. It has been a [...]

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stinky feet

December 14, 2010

This morning I was packing Reid’s school lunch while Rhett(4) was eating his oatmeal. I put in his thermos of water. I added his snack. In went his sandwich and drink. I grabbed a small pre-packaged bag of fruit snacks for dessert and was about to place it in the lunch box when Rhett said, [...]

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potluck with weapons

November 22, 2010

Monday again has reared it’s ugly head. But around here we are celebrating! Yes, the kids are home… screaming and climbing the walls. Family is what the holidays are all about. Grab your earplugs and any repelling equipment needed to join in. As I have mentioned before, we have weapons. Lots and lots of weapons. [...]

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