In Mother Words

“Mommy, I hear something in the garage. I think Jesus just came back!” – Ariel, age 5

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My son woke up at about 2 the other morning, just crying for Mommy, so I went in to check on him. He couldn’t be consoled by anything other than my presence, so I lay down to snooze with him for a while. He kept tossing and turning, and finally asked if we could go [...]

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My daughter is playing ‘operation’ with her doll right now. She says it’s to make her more ‘beautifuller’ and that operation is the royal word for that. It’s really interesting listening to the stream of consciousness going on.

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I was walking my daughter home from school today, and she asked me if there would be school tomorrow. Her teacher had told her about how she was going to vote for President tomorrow.
I reassured her that yes, school would continue as usual, since voting only takes a little time. I added that I would [...]

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contributed by Rochelle
My friend and I were walking home from dropping our older kids off at school when she mentioned it was her son’s birthday. He has apparently decided that he’s younger now because he has to drop the “and a half” from his age.
Would that it were so easy!

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My son doesn’t talk too clearly yet, and like a lot of toddlers uses some interesting word choices. Such as this morning’s conversation:
Him: “Me need hoo ker.”
Me: “You need what?”
Him: “Me need hookER!”
It took me a minute to realize that last night he had been playing with one of those punching bag balloons and using [...]

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