Posts Tagged “Parenting As Child Exploitation”

Will You Be My Mummy (I Mean Valentine)

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Will You Be My Mummy (I Mean Valentine)

The kids don’t have school tomorrow, Friday, the day before Valentine’s Day. As such they will be doing their “celebration” this afternoon (though as this is getting posted it already happened). Everybody in his class, according to August, is creating a special box to hold their valentines in. Instead of simply having a plain bag…

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Childhood

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Childhood

Last night as we were in the middle of our evening routine getting ready for bed, my daughter Déla currently age 9, said “I don’t want to grow up. I like my childhood.” What more could you ask for?

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Moving

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I hate moving. Growing up mom and I moved every year or so. It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I lived in the same place for any significant amount of time. When Laura and I moved with Kyle into our house 16 years ago I said I didn’t want to move again….

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Phamily Foto Phriday 1-23-15

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Phamily Foto Phriday 1-23-15

It’s been a couple of weeks, I know, but I haven’t taken that many pictures. We are all so busy, and then again, there’s nothing really to report. It’s all the hecticness of life with a gajillion kids. Earlier this month Ciaran had a Cub Scout meeting. There he worked on creating a scrapbook, one…

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Heroes For Lunch

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Heroes For Lunch

Xavier has begun to start playing video games. You can question my parenting decisions all you want, I do, but until you try parenting a large group of kids that aren’t the same age at least hold of on the harsher of judgements. He only plays LEGO Marvel and The LEGO Movie, and only for…

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Phamily Foto Phriday 1-9-15

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Phamily Foto Phriday 1-9-15

It’s a new year. I still have some old pictures. It’s not all older stuff this week though. Here are the shots from Christmas that turned out.   Yes, that is a shot of Kyle. He came over on Christmas Eve and spent the night. Ciaran was “Santa’s helper” this year, assisting in the distribution of…

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Just Say No To Creepy Valentine Gifts

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Just Say No To Creepy Valentine Gifts

I got an advertisement in the mail the other day for a personalized item of jewelry to give to my special valentine. Now I’m sure whoever was in charge used some sort of automated search algorithm to match my name with a female’s. Unfortunately this was more along the lines of “Red Dwarf” in regards…

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Shirt Follow-Up

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Shirt Follow-Up

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I talked about how a shirt we ordered had not arrived in time for Christmas? Well, it finally arrived, but that’s not the end of it.

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Eight Months

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Eight Months

Tevye is 8 months old today. Four teeth, and of course solid food. Along with the solid food the bowel movements to match. I am getting tired of his naps getting interrupted by those bowel movements. Generally he is a happy baby and he sleeps (mostly). This has all been so helpful in maintaining some semblance of…

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Reading And Reading And Reading

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Ciárán has turned into a reading machine. First grade has been very good to him. He has steadily improved his ability and actively enjoys reading – something you simply can not teach. Over the last couple of weeks he blasted through the last few of the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid books. Then in two…

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