Category: friends
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Bitty Buddha 101: How (and Why) to Make a Mean Person Your Friend (from the Momplex Blog archive)
I can’t count how many times someone’s called my first-grader a little Buddha. He’s an insightful little fart, often boiling down life’s tough stuff into the simplest terms from the backseat of my Hyundai. And he’s always unusually happy, even when his nose is bleeding like a scene from the Colosseum. One could argue that all first-graders have…
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The Shame of Hand-Me-Downs (from the Momplex Blog archives)
My son has almost no clothes of his own. By that, I mean he wears almost exclusively hand-me-downs. I can’t even begin to fathom how much cash this has saved me. Land’s End snowsuits, firetruck galoshes, and warm cable-knit sweaters are nothing to scoff at. I’m grateful. BUT. This year my son started preschool, and…
The Second Magpie 