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The best thing about being a parent is watching your children grow, and realizing that you grow along with them. It’s really how children make you feel time differently, appreciate it more and...
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Picking up my son from school and hearing him call my name and running up to me as if he hasn’t seen me days.
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When we get the paper every morning. I ask the baby girl in my arms where the birdies are. She looks up, squints, and points her tiny pointer finger to the sky. A few times she’s said “BUR–dee” but...
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Holding your child for the first time…looking into eyes so new to the world and wondering what thoughts are taking place behind them…first smiles…first laughs…first words…first steps…tiny hands in...
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I am a sports fanatic so teaching my kids how to shoot a basket, swing a tennis racket, and kick a soccer ball has been a great thrill.
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I was an only child. I was cherished by my parents, who had me later in life, and I felt greatly loved growing up–a situation I thought was normal and later found out was rare. Or if not rare, not...
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Charity begins in the home is one of the many expressions that I often heard throughout my childhood. Having lost my dad as an eight-year-old child, his words always remained with me. Being a mother of...
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What it means to me I couldn’t say entirely. I immediately think of birthdays–how much I love when the children have them, how excited they are to gain this new age, and how it’s in inverse proportion...
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