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When You Give a Cat a Weed House

My oldest and I made the always terrible mistake of killing time by wandering the halls of a Target. Options were limited, and we needed some cleaning supplies. Instead of being responsible, grabbing what we needed and rushing out of there like we were fleeing our certain death, we decided to ‘just look around.’ We avoided […]

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Anatomy of a Dance Competition Weekend

Much like snow days, dance competitions have a certain flow to them. Since, it’s a dance competition weekend for us so I thought I’d share, and commiserate, with all of you how it usually goes. The Week Before Find out when you’ll actually be dancing. Up until this point, you’ve had the whole three days

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Anatomy of a 2025 Snow Day

It is 6:55 am. Your alarm rings and as you swipe away the inexplicable multitude of notifications that arrived overnight, you notice a text from the school district. There’s a 2-hour delay. Not so bad, you think, stopping your alarm and getting to sleep in a whole extra 30 minutes before work. 7:45 am. Did

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Back to Sanity or Why School Should be Year-Round

Walking through Target, buying only the necessities I assure you, I noticed that the store is fully in back-to-school mode. The entire seasonal section is full of notebooks, pens, and matching backpack and lunchbox sets. Around the main store, you see the signs that school is approaching too. There are teacher mugs and lots of

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