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Friday, May 24, 2013

Archive for the ‘Birthdays’ Category

Visiting the Hall of Flame Museum

Family enjoying a fire engine available for boarding at the Hall of Flame. Photo by Lynn Trimble.

The 11th anniversary of 9/11 calls us to remember the daily sacrifices of firefighters and other first responders. The Hall of Flame Fire Museum in Phoenix is home to the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes, which features an exhibit honoring firefighters lost on 9/11. The hall honors American firefighters who’ve died in the line of [...]

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Brace yourself!

I tried to act calm. Eli seemed to be rolling unflappably with the unexpected event. Meanwhile I started texting everyone I knew with my pithy, yet painful observations about time’s fleeting passage.

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That was a cold swish!

Now my husband and I were shifting into hard sell mode. We whipped out my lap top and pulled up a U-tube of Hacksaw and Hammer effortlessly spinning basketballs on their fingers and balancing them on their noses. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. It took about 20 seconds and one particularly humorous play in which Flip loses his shirt and shorts and powers down the court in his underwear before Eli was hooked.

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The makings of a meltdown.

1.) I am late for everything. This is a flaw that I seem unable to overcome. I feel badly about myself for my tardiness. But when it negatively impacts my children, I feel even worse. Translated, the message I get in this type of situation is:
I SUCK AS A MOTHER!!!!

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Eliyore

Was I doing the right thing? Jake was a friend, and sometimes you have to do things for your friends. Wasn’t that a valuable lesson? But making him attend a festive event looking like Eeyore on Benzodiazepines? It just didn’t feel right.

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Birthday blunder

Finally he was acting like a normal kid which gave me the opportunity to act like a normal parent. Maybe for once I could get him some stuff that would make him happy, even if it was only a fleeting happiness.

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