just a little. I’m still working on completing a backlog of entries. We’ll call it done eventually.

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Still feels like the world is a little over-stimulating sometimes. An exciting day and my heart pounds; when I’m a little too tired the soft white water sounds from my stereo to cover the noise of traffic on the street sounds like Niagara Falls, and I grope in the bed for my ear plugs. Not [...]

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Playing with glue and pasta this past week. Almost as fun as gluing it: picking the pasta back off the next day. Brown rice. Much harder to glue, even for me. It clumped too much, but C&D didn’t mind the challenge. David announced he would draw a Daddy. Here’s the feet, he said. Carmen sat [...]

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Little good: David was watching the street from the glass storm door. Carmen was quiet in the bedroom. Little bad: Carmen had just spent several minutes gutting her “overalls bear.” Little good: Carmen singing all the way to the Galleria. Little bad: Carmen trying to persuade David he really doesn’t want to sing with her. [...]

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When C&D were little, they needed to be held and snuggled all day (and night) long. So we wrapped them up against our chests and wore them as we puttered around the house, took walks, and shopped. After a while, we eventually had to eat, or do what you eventually have to do after you [...]

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Sundays night I meet with enthusiasm and a twinge of dread. After Sunday night comes Monday morning, and the Dynamic Duo and I are on our own for the day. They’re funny and friendly (hence the enthusiasm), but as they move toward their third birthday, I am increasingly aware that even though I’m taller and [...]

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