December 2009
2 posts
Clarification
Stella was walking slowly down the stairs, thoughtfully sucking her thumb. Suddenly she pulled her thumb from her mouth and turned back toward me.
“If I’m outdoors, is it okay to take spit out of my mouth?”
“No,” I said. ”You always keep your spit inside your mouth.”
“But I mean at trees and plants and stuff,” she said.
I wavered.
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Snow Day
First big snow of the winter — and it’s heavy, sticky snow. The girls made snowballs, a snowman, and some kind of fort-type piece of snowy real estate before demanding hot chocolate.
I snapped this photo with my cell phone, loved it, and decided this should be our holiday card this year (yes, I’m this late ordering our holiday cards; it’s like this every year). But...