It may surprise you to hear that I don’t have a history of doing crafty projects with my kids all of the time. My kids are plenty creative, but they’ve always preferred to do their making on their own terms. They’re not much for planned projects. That’s why, when I said, “hey, do you guys […]
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Five days
We’ve been on our own, the boys and I, since Thursday, when Neil left for the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal. We have separations like this from time to time, but this has been the longest one. Even though we got to see him every day via Skype, we’re pretty much ready to have […]
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It’s a certain someone‘s birthday today, and the boys and I collaborated on a banner. My instructions were clear: Aidan, you write HAPPY, I’ll write BIRTHDAY, and Eamonn, you write DADDY. Then we’ll hang them all up for Daddy to see when he comes downstairs this morning. Well, my boys are nothing if not outside-of-the-box […]
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