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Bed Book
I just finished writing my first kids’ book. I won’t be looking for a literary agent, however, because I wrote this book just for Alleke. In fact, she is the main character in the story, and the book is about her new bedtime routine. Discipline as training (not punishment) I made a significant breakthrough in [...]
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Lullaby
I was lying there with the pillow over my head. I had managed to recover from jet lag earlier in the week, but now that April and Alleke were home, the process had started over again, and we were all awake. Because we share the same bed, I was invited to their slumber party. Not [...]
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Stolen Property
Every morning I remind Alleke to put her blankie in her bed. This morning, however, when I mentioned her blankie, she began to cry. “Blankie,” she blurted, sobbing into the floor. I walked over and picked her up. “Where is your blankie?” I asked, scanning the room. I carried Alleke around the house, and we [...]
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Alleke’s Worst Day
Alleke gets a cold Alleke lay on the changing table while I sang her a song and fastened the velcro straps on her diaper. It was early to be putting her to sleep, but she was nodding off already, fighting to keep her eyes open just long enough to moan and reach for me to [...]
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Sharing
Sometimes the most simple lessons we learned as kids are also the most simple lessons we learn as adults. Up until last week Alleke has been sleeping with us in our bed. We don’t use a crib. We have one, but it’s still in pieces in our storage space. Last week, however, we decided it [...]
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Jet Lag
I looked at the clock. It read 2:04. This time I was in Spain, I was in bed, and it was the middle of the night. My mind was like a scratched CD, playing the same fragments of thought over and over again in my head. For the moment, my mind was busy scribbling Spanish [...]
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