Posts Tagged Under By Dawn Yun
June 22nd, 2009
Why is it that every day my daughter expects something new? From a stuffie (stuffed animal) to clothes to a piece of candy.
It is the something/anything syndrome.
I am trying to teach her that we are in a recession. Her pronunciation of it is difficult enough. Though it is the explanation that counts.
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June 19th, 2009
When it came time to chose godparents for my daughter I gave it careful thought. I wanted her to have two godparents and wanted them to be people she could always turn to as I had a sense — correct I might add — that my daughter and I would fight often because we would be so much alike.
We do and we are.
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June 18th, 2009
Ever since I took up the guitar about a year and a half a go I’ve skipped my mid-life crises because I’m so happy strumming.
Without dreams of fame or fortune just appreciation for making a D minor chord blend with its cousin, A minor. I feel transported.
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June 17th, 2009
School is out for summer!
School is out forever!
Well, no, not really. But it is over for me for the next two and a half days! Woo-woo-hoo-hoo!!!
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June 13th, 2009
The baby and toddler years will always be amongst my most memorable memories. It wasn’t easy finding a group of women who felt the same exact way I did about mommying.
We shared insecurities, secrets, tips, and truly gave each other what was left of us that we didn’t give to our children.
Then — something changed.
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June 10th, 2009
This simply cannot possibly be true.
It is.
School is almost o-ver!!!!
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June 9th, 2009
This sucks. It sucks so bad. Right now this is beyond sucksome. It is so sucky that I have to make up words just to feel creative.
I’ve got a terrible case of writer’s block.
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June 6th, 2009
Monday was my daughter’s first day back at school after a two-week break. We went shopping so I could return some sweaters.
That was the plan. What resulted was anything but. The trip to the mall was one big exercise in getting something/having anything.
I was trying to look at bras with my five-year old. Now, a woman cannot be rushed when deciding on a bra. Mimi put one around her neck. “Does this fit?” she asked.
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June 1st, 2009
Parents’ Night. Second Grade.
Kindergarten and first grade were disasters for my daughter and for myself. I was in a clinical medical study for lymphoma, while my daughter was in a classroom with forty children from whom much was expected. My daughter needed warmth and attention. Instead she received coldness and efficiency.
Guilt over my class choices for her was at times overwhelming. Probably as overwhelmed as she was in her class. She made few if any friends. Mimi was unusually quiet. I rarely had the energy to do homework with her. I had changed drastically from the fun mommy I used to be into one that she no longer knew. She wanted the old one back. I wanted her to return, too.
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May 9th, 2009
Anniversaries usually represent happy times. But the latest anniversary in my life was not a celebration. It was a remembrance of my mother’s passing.
I had sought a sign from her last year. Something that indicated to me that she was somehow still around.
It was night and nothing.
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