253: Saving My Kids From My Insanity
I was in the mad dash of last-minute party planning. The guests for Sid’s birthday celebration would start arriving in 90 minutes. We had just returned from picking up the food from the caterer. We...
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252: Saving Money Can Be Fun!
Robot Family! Last Halloween, I spent over $100 on costumes for all four of us. I was Peter Pan, Sid was Captain Hook and Mira was Tinkerbell. Miles was Thomas the Train. (When you’re 4, not all topics...
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The alarm goes off at 6 a.m. Sid hits the snooze bar. It goes off again. There’s no more delay: The carnival must begin. He rises to rouse the children. But I lay in bed, staring into the remaining...
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56: Get in Your Neighbor’s Business
Desiree and Chrissy, my cohorts during those wild summer days. (This is obviously not a summer picture but the only one I could find.) This week I enrolled my kids in summer camp for the first time....
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22: About a Butcher
Jack was just as happy to sell me my meat as I was to buy it. Welcome back Curran’s! I awoke Saturday morning with a sense of urgency: Curran’s was opening today and I was going to buy some meat!...
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21: We Did What?!
A couple of weeks ago I ran into some people from the Project Hope Crisis Counseling Program, which offers free mental health services to people impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Seven months after the...
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8: In Kindergarten, a Victory
A sweet end to a stressful schoolyear. From the day my son Miles was born six years ago, I set my mind’s eye on the day when he would start kindergarten. That would be my nirvana moment. For the first...
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7: School’s Out for Summer!
Mira’s third grade classroom, a refuge from the storm. We did it. We survived this school year. When Mira, my now almost-9-year-old, started kindergarten, I thought that was the hardest year of my...
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1: So Long, 30s
So here I am: My last day as a 30-anything. A year ago, that thought jolted me into starting this blog. Back then, I was focused on endings. Now I’m focused on beginnings. That is a much happier place...
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From Now On, I’m Hoarding Experiences
Off on another adventure. He has no idea how much the world has to offer, but I hope to show him as much as I can. I spent last weekend dismantling our post-Sandy hellscape, i.e. the bedroom where we...
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