This lyric in Tanya Tucker’s Delta Dawn has always really resonated with me, she’s 41 and her Daddy still calls her baby, maybe because my own Dad (never Daddy, okay?) still calls me sweetie, still …
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she’s 41, and her Daddy still calls her sweetie
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your train
Joe: this train is for Dad and me and Bobbie. Here’s our beds and this part’s where we keep the toys. Me: Where am I? Joe: You’re on the other train. I pulse with guilt …
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Identity theft
I am horrified to admit how often I get an email that says my password was a part of a data leak or that someone tried to login into my everything, someone requested a password …
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where they are
One minute I’m walking to rehearsal and I feel my feet on planet earth and it’s one foot in front of the other, a leisurely point three miles downtown, twelve minutes door to door, but …
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a Mother of a Weekend
Popped home for 72 hours to see the kids! I accidentally let Bob drink a bottle of lemon extract, or at least dump it all over herself, and spent our first AM together on the …
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2023 bakes
Some people do a New Year’s inventory of their past year on earth’s accomplishments, decisions, mistakes, I like to think about my year in terms of Bakes, which in fact hold a great deal of …
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Thirst
I am remarkably self conscious blogging about this, considering how much my desire to lose weight was about how my Self is perceived but here we are, 7 months and 40 pounds later, I did …
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He knows when you need Socks
Philosophical question, If you don’t have socks with your kids faces on them ARE YOU EVEN A DAD AT ALL? Santa* brought these for Mo and I must say he* KNOWS, INDEED
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Hide and Poop
Joe’s favorite game right now is Hide and Seek but he’s very bad at it and it’s my favorite thing. He says I’M GOING TO HIDE RIGHT HERE! COME AND FIND ME! or tells me …
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I baked
I had my first IN PERSON PITCH in four years today, so naturally I spent all of the time I should have spent going over my document baking things from the book (Sorghum Molasses cookies …