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Saturday it was one year!!
It hardly seems possible.
He could barely walk and now he is wickedly strong.
He would barely talk and now he is giggly and outgoing.
He’d never been on a swing and now he runs and belly flops onto them so he can “Fly like Buzz Lightyear!”
He was desperately scared of baths and now […]

Oi.  I’m just not cut out for it.  I’ve got 13 meetings this week.  Over 5 days. And another 6 already slotted for next week, with one of them being a check-in with the social worker and another an all day affair in NYC (which should count for 8 meetings, as its 8 hours! […]

Carlo came up to me with a bit of stuffing.  “Here you go.”
I’d seen it on the floor earlier.  I asked him the question I had wondered when I first saw it.  “Do you know where this came from?”
“Huh?”
“Where did this come from?” I asked as I waved the stuffing in front of him.
“In the […]

Its a crazy month for work. Rather unexpectedly. You know you are in for a rough week when by 10 am Monday morning you’ve already decided you’ll be running late enough to do dinner out. I was in NYC once last week and once this week and have to go back in […]

The kids got dressed up for our outing to Ikea.  Nicky in his Mandarin collar jacket *and* Superman cape.  Carlo as Elmo.  And Noelle, while not “dressed up”, went as Wonder Woman.