Boys

He Puts the “W” in “Mom”

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The Maker made me this super-awesome pop-up card and I know you’re all jealous. He has recently been enamored of the nifty way you can play with words, and he particularly adores palindromes. However, in the case of my name (which is, of course, “Mom”) he likes that I sign my notes with “WOW MOM”. [...]

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Yard Sale Haul

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Our neighborhood hosted their annual multi-family yard sale last week, and the Maker (pictured here, with a selection of his loot) was up by 7 am on a Saturday, armed with $5.00 and ready to fight for first pick of the best goods. I think he got pretty good value for his money, but I’ll [...]

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Boy Feet

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Ok, I feel slightly guilty — but only slightly — to have posted yesterday and made it look like the Maker never wears shoes. Here is proof to the contrary, and I swear to you he has nicer shoes than these, too. Sketchers, even! I just bought them about 4 weeks ago and they are [...]

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From Now On, I Buy Black Ones

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I know, this is disgusting. This week I came home from work and found the Maker playing driveway basketball with several of his friends. In his socks. Again. I keep telling him, Dude, you need some thicker socks. Like, ones with some kind of cushiony, tough sole to them. If they were heavier, you could [...]

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The Maker’s Bedroom Door

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I knew you would enjoy this, violent people that you are. If only the purple one showed up better: it looks like if you enter without caution you could get a bloody lip. Like, a serious bloody lip, with enough blood to satisfy a whole pack of vampires. Of course, they say head wounds bleed [...]

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Snow Day

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It started coming down in earnest about 7 pm on Friday night, and by then the Ice was over his misery at being forbidden to go to a skating party that was due to run until 11 pm in a town 30 miles away. The First, however, had already made good his escape and was [...]

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Water-Powered Boat

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As you can see, the Maker has been at it again. This time he put together a water-powered boat made from paper plates, a cup, a straw, some blue painter’s tape, and a wad of gum (which he borrowed from one of his brothers). When I saw the working demonstration, this craft had already been [...]

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I Forgot to Figure This Out in Advance

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I wasn’t sure what to expect, even though I used to be a teenage girlfriend. I think I just had my brain so laser-focused on raising three little boys that I didn’t consider what it would be like to raise three towering-over-me boys and their magically expanding universe of friends. I may have sort of [...]

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Twilight Didn’t Do It For Me

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When I was in school the only book we ever passed around was Judy Blume’s Wifey, which had sex scenes. We shared the novel furtively, like we were slipping over a nickel bag of pot; no one knew who owned it — the same dog-eared copy must have passed through the locker of every female [...]

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Balloon Heads

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What the hell is going on here? Are they being punished? Are they protesting… something? Whatever it is, it’s almost certainly going to get them into Harvard. I don’t know why, but like Counselor Troi I sense it.

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