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The Forbidden Gumballs {and the fall of Tessa and Myles}

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I walked in after being gone for a few hours with the almost birthday girl. She took our purchases to the dining room where we’ve been making things pretty to celebrate. She quickly returned with a half empty jar of pink gumballs. The very pink gumballs I told the four children we left behind NOT to eat. Tessa? Myles? Where are you? I called out in my not so happy voice. Two littles appeared sheepishly into the kitchen. Did you eat the gumballs I told you not to eat? Their eyes got really big. Tessa gave me some so I […]

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We’re So Glad We Did

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Her day came on August 18th. Five years old and full of life. With no kitchen and daddy head down in the remodel, the day passed without much fuss or frolic. But still, we laid in bed and told her birth story like we do for all the children on their special day. And we giggled at how we stopped for a big breakfast in the city while contractions were increasing in strength and frequency. And we remembered how before we took that two hour drive, our family of five piled into bed together at 4:30am to savor the last […]