parenting

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The fifth birthday is a big deal. Five is kindergarten. It is reading and writing and riding your bike without training wheels. Five is the first milestone after the first birthday.

Even though I love how I look in those picture-perfect selfies, I love the less than flawless photos too, and I’m not going to stop sharing them.

This labor, the work of being a female, has been our work so long that no one really knows what a truly equally yoked household looks like.

The girls had their first night at dance class last week.

When my son was little, I used to let him win board games a lot.

There’s good evidence the anti-vaccine movement is growing.

What I was not prepared for was this. When it was time to give birth to the placenta, gross thing really, it just kind of flops out and they drop it into a bucket. Splat.