Author: Violeta
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Traveling together
Do we take our kids on big trips? Will they remember them? Is the hassle worth the outcome? In my heart I respond to all three: Yes!
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The experiment
Work. Work nights and weekends during a trip of a lifetime, the first visit back home (my adult life home) with our new daughter.
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Thanksgiving
Keeping up with each other’s social media really blurred the line of time and space separating us.
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Three out of three
Jackie cries when I go to Work. And I feel like I enter into an alternate reality when going to work.
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Misinformation is a very perverse enemy.
And when people pine for times they haven’t lived through is dangerous.
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Week 1 of 12
It’s been nearly two years since we last visited. But after living here most of my adult life, I find everything quite familiar. The surprising part is that Jaclyn shares that same comfort and familiarity, as if she’s always been here as well.
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Questions
Driving up to visit my brother and his family, Jaclyn singing loudly in the back seat, she stopped and asked: “why did you want a girl?”
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4 on
“Choosing not to shame, or instruct, or correct, but rather observe, delight in, and love your child with no strings attached is as active-parenting as it gets.”
