HeyJaredMother, Nature
A mix of personal prose, musings on parenting, and insufferable leftist rants.
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#18 / She let herself go (opens the original)
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Solid and Striped is in my inbox flaunting two hundred dollar swimsuits. The bikini tops have horizontal stripes, the one-pieces, vertical. My freshman year in high school, I started wearing shirts with horizontal stripes because someone told me it would make my boobs look bigger.In college, wary of the dreaded “freshman 15,” I accepted my small breasts, and aspired to make the rest of my body match. I turned the stripes ninety degrees and ate only from the salad bar.In my twenties I remember th
#17 / 57 Love Songs (opens the original)
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Our planned location was the summit of a hike we love, which we learned was closed due to wildfires a week before the wedding. Nature doesn’t take reservations, I repeated under my breath to keep from crying as we frantically scouted out a new spot for the ceremony, two days before the ceremony. That’s showbiz climate change, baby. Our alternate location was beautiful. It ended up even better in some ways than our original plan. And while I don’t yet have anything that profound to say (it was pe
#16 / Sometimes (opens the original)
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June had wings. Some nights, the boys ate more than Kris and me. Two full plates each. Axel asked for two servings of sweet potatoes and three servings of sausage. Soren, three servings of red beans and rice, three servings (six slices) of polenta. A warning, when they’re hungry like this: next week, they’ll wake up taller.I had three work trips. I always opt to fly home late after the final day of work, just to be there when the kids wake up, even if it means a fifteen-hour day for me. Axel is
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