My first-grade playground featured three large concrete “tunnels.” I didn’t know this at the time, but they were sections of (unused) sewer pipes sunk into the ground part-way (so as not to roll). Two were round and one was oval, and the largest had a large enough diameter for us to stand straight up inside.…

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Saturday morning, 7:15am, and I’m up. My boys don’t get the concept of sleeping in. No matter how early I set my alarm to try to rise before them, no matter how late we keep them up the night before(or the few nights before), my Little Boy is always the first child out of bed.He’s always…

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My purgatory = trying to potty-train a boy It has been six weeks now since I launched Operation End Diapers Now. (Granted, we took a 2-week hiatus to travel… you simply cannot stop fast enough for a potty-training child when traveling by car. Then Little Boy got terrible diarrhea, poor guy.) So I guess it’s…

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The first month of summer we spent planning our contribution to Vacation Bible School and then participating in it. My husband and I helped lead the singing, and he also wrote some puppet scripts to go along with each day’s lesson. The week of VBS, we really enjoyed spending time with all the kids. (I…

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It’s time for the Saturday Evening Blog Post hosted by Elizabeth Esther. Visit her site to read more “best posts of June.” Two posts in June received a large response from readers: “We Need a Mothers’ Creed” which is a call for moms to stop competing with each other and cutting one another down, and…

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