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Big Guy's glory, Mommy's migraine

It's an honor Big Guy has coveted for a week, and that's an eternity when you're 5. He's even been handicapping his chances. "Xx was Friend of the Week last week," he said. "We have the same first letter, but his second letter is ahead of me. So maybe it's going to be my turn this week. Oh, I hope!" I guessed that he'd calculated correctly when he came barreling out of the cafeteria this afternoon -- usually I have to near-drag him kicking and borderline screaming, because he'd rather chat than walk home with boring old mom.  Read more >

Spread around the wealth -- you bet

I am comfortably middle class. Though that assumes that there's still comfort in a middle class where the day-care bill is higher than a pre-housing boom mortgage and climbing at twice the rate of inflation.  Read more >

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9to5to9
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October 2008
About Me: 
Hillbilly by birth, Californian by choice, Debra Legg is former interactive media editor for modbee.com and a freelance writer, editor and Web content specialist. A graduate of West Virginia University, she’s won awards for reporting and column writing in West Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina. Her sons — 5-year-old Big Guy and 3-year-old Little Guy — provide plenty of fodder for 9 to 5 to 9, which is a nationally syndicated column through McClatchy Tribune Media Services.
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