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One day, all of my children will sleep through the night. And so will I.

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Sometimes, in Summertime

5/23/12 5:52pm by Kelly Hines
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My friend Tara at Faith In Ambiguity said 'May is for mothering'. Between end of school parties and awards and graduations and recitals, May is certainly, overwhelmingly, for Mothering. I have spent the past couple of weeks in a state of goofy almost-doneness, pitting responsibility against warm days and sandboxes and four o'clock beers. I took the kids to ice cream for no other reason than today was Wednesday and we had nothing better to do.  Read more >

Mr. Bojangles

5/20/12 7:44am by Kelly Hines
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God, how she loved that cat. She had waited so long to adopt him; visiting the pet store every week for three months, talking to him through the wire mesh, tickling his fur with her outstretched finger. Sometimes the man who worked there would let her take the orange tabby out and pet him, but she was careful not to ask too often. She didn't want to be known as a 'cat lady'. 'Cat lady' implies a certain strangeness, and she wasn't strange. At least she didn't think so. She'd asked the owner of the store to hold him until she could save up the adoption fee.  Read more >

Potty All the Time

5/16/12 5:36pm by Kelly Hines
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My world has been consumed by the toilet for two days. Henry, whose fixations make me look like an OCD lightweight, has fixated on doing his business in the potty. Which should make me extremely happy. Instead, he is driving me insane. He has been accident free, due in large part to his insistance on sitting on the pot every fifteen minutes. The first seven or eight or twelve times, it was cute. I high fived and potty danced and heaped praise for the tiniest dribble. I pulled a muscle while executing a triple salchow after he pooped.  Read more >

Playing Possum

5/9/12 5:44pm by Kelly Hines
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*An editorial note for you amateur etymologists: there is a difference between an opossum and a possum. The possum is an animal native to New Zealand and Australia. The opossum is the only marsupial native to North America. However, I have never heard an American, and certainly not a Southerner, refer to the country rat as an opossum. So, for this story, possum it is!   Read more >

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Kelly Hines
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March 2011
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Stay at home mom
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