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A Perfect Day

by eliz on January 1, 2010

This morning, my husband got up with Tink at 7 and let me sleep in.
He took her downstairs, made her pumpkin pancakes and set up the ridiculous skate park toy “Santa” bought for her that he and I semi-argued about in the days before Christmas. (Along the lines of, “What possessed you to buy [...]

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I never saw a little girl in a bishop dress until I moved here.
They’re just not worn in the North. No one puts their boys in John-Johns, either. I was unaware that those were even manufactured after 1963.

Upstate New York, where I’m from, is too steeped in its ethnic and working-class roots for that sort [...]

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Just Call Me ABD’s Mom

by eliz on July 19, 2009

This is how my daughter likes to wear her baseball cap. 
I never suggested she wear it this way, and her father sure never showed her. She obviously saw someone – around town, on TV, who knows – wearing it this way, and she decided it looks cool. Even at 4 years old, she’s fashion savvy [...]

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