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This is a piece I published on Divine Caroline two and a half years ago. Back when Eamon was an only child. My son is nearly nine now but I always liked this piece. So enjoy the rebroad. I really hope my six-year-old turns out sweet and functional. I am doubtful, especially when I realize…
So little boy brought this book and it’s sequel home. His brain was firing in all different exciting ways. Take note you parents of highly creative 8 year-olds, this book is super cool. Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger, seems to be some sort of creative paper-folding meets imaginary hero/bad guy pretending to be Star Wars…
Down here on the “slower lower shore” in Caroline County, Maryland, they have an Annual Wheat Threshing Steam & Gas Engine Show in August. This was their 53rd. Located on the route south from Denton, Maryland to Federalsburg, this hootinanny is held in a great big field and features an antique tractor show, flea market…
Eamon came home from a playdate and proudly announced that the Mom had allowed them to use some bad words. I was curious since I know she’s been taking her children to a Catholic church. So I queried the vocabulary in question. He said, “Wee wee and pee pee. And dumb, holy, and crisis“. I…
I was aware that the plein air festival was going down in Easton as it does every July. I’d seen some of the artists out painting as I visited Moonvine. When I got wind that Sunday was a kids classes day, I took the opportunity to create a field trip with my little artists,Eamon and…
Ah, are these summer days dragging on at lightening speed or what? The joy and the pain of recent events are as follows. Our oven died. I freaked out when the chicken still wasn’t done by 8 in the evening. Thought I was blinder than I had imagined and upset, I reset the oven. Yah,…
If you haven’t been to Cafe Sado, Inc. in Chester, MD, I probably shouldn’t tell you and ruin it for the rest of us. But we think it’s the best and the most affordable place for sushi. People drive over the bridge from Annapolis for the BOGO deal on sushi. There’s plenty to choose from…
I recently had to explain to my seven year-old why I was shooing the kitty away from the house and away from the girl kitty who was acting kinda funny. We were having a birds, the bees, and kitties talk in which we discussed how boy kitties have spikes on the end of their winkles…
Do you remember my drawing mannikins from my shopping trip extravaganza to Tuesday morning? They ended up being an ongoing moveable diorama on this window ledge through to the stairway. I probably missed a few set-ups before I realized that there was a pattern here. One guess as to who set this one up. The…
So my ever curious kid asks,”How did you go from running energetic Mommy to pregnant slow breathless turtle Mommy?” or something like that. I asked him to repeat and he did. I say,”The baby in my belly made that happen.” But that didn’t quite satisfy him. So we pull down the Webster’s dictionary. I told…
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