Month: June 2010
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Songs for Sale (from the Momplex Blog archives)
If you’re not a regular reader, I hope you found this blog entry by Googling “high-needs baby” or “shrill cry.” This is what one of those babies can be like when she gets to be about six: It’s a new kind of shrill, no question. But I swear I’d do labor, colic, and eight sleepless…
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Our First Official Day of Summer Break (from the Momplex Blog archives)
We woke up at the crack of dawn and had oatmeal from packets and played with Legos and changed the wet laundry into the dryer before playing in the car and losing the garage-door opener and before driving 20 minutes to see a friend in a triathlon, only to find that there were about one…
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Signs of Life (from the Momplex Blog archives)
I used to drive by houses like mine and cringe a little. You know the kind, right? A place with promise and pocked with plastic playthings: I can’t count how many times I’ve complained about our place looking like a post-apocalyptic hellhole within a few hours of having been cleaned — again. But last night,…
The Second Magpie 