Category Archives: kid stuff

Holding Onto Magoo

Posted on October 8, 2012 by The Daring One

When Magoo gets home from school each day, he doesn’t tell me squat about what’s happened while we’ve been apart. I ask him probing, thought-provoking questions and he shrugs and says he can’t remember. Like a post-traumatic stress victim, he … Continue reading →

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One Suck Per Day

Posted on October 6, 2012 by The Daring One

Laylee discovered the word “sucks” this week. She’s known the word for a long time but this week she discovered it in all its frustration-ventilating splendor. “I forgot my homework at school. That sucks.” “Oh man. I dropped the spoon … Continue reading →

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Words of Wanda

Posted on October 3, 2012 by The Daring One

Wanda is a character. Often found with one eyebrow up involuntarily, she has much to say about the world. She almost speaks English. Today as I got her dressed: “Mom! This is the crazy shirt in the WORLD.” There is … Continue reading →

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Smile Practice

Posted on September 23, 2012 by The Daring One
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Mini S’mores for Mini People

Posted on September 5, 2012 by The Daring One

I was at girls’ camp this summer, talking camp shop with some of my camp homies. Inevitably camp shop talk turns to s’mores because they’re much more fun than rodents, full body rashes, and hypothermia. For the first time this … Continue reading →

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Hypothesis

Posted on May 24, 2012 by The Daring One

We were walking past a park near the high school yesterday when Magoo noticed an egg smashed on the sidewalk. His little scientific mind got to work and as we walked past it again on the way home, he came … Continue reading →

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