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Month 26, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, One day you may read about the Newtown Connecticut school shooting or perhaps you’ll hear it mentioned on the news one day in the future and I want you to know that all school shootings or mass shootings for that matter are horrible but there is something extremely scary about this particular incident. …
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Month 50
Dear Olivia, You learned to ride a bike yesterday and for you, this is quite an accomplishment. An accomplishment that is roughly a year in the making. Let me take you back to December of last year. I purchased the most adorable little Schwinn I could get my hands on and I was confident that…
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Month 25, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, You’re a difficult child. There’s really no point in sugar-coating that because it’s who you are. You’re a pain in the ass and I have accepted that. You are difficult when it comes to most things and I say most things because believe or not, there are a few areas of your life…
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Month 49
Dear Olivia, Last month was the drama-filled month of Adriana and I’m happy to report that since her departure from all of our lives, things have settled down quite a bit. Perhaps it’s a placebo type of effect but I truly feel that you’re not so aggressive here at the house anymore. You still boss…
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Month 24, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, Happy second birthday my sweet boy. You are now a bouncing, screaming, defiant little toddler ready to enter the Hell that is the second year of life. Your defiant independent nature is nothing new but I can’t help feel a twinge of utter helplessness when I know what the year may have in…
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Month 48
Dear Olivia, Wooooooooot – holla at you – it’s your birthday! So, last month I had the dilemma planning how we would celebrate your birthday. Our original plan was a trip to Southern California to make our yearly visit to Disneyland but when plans changed, I was suddenly faced with a birthday rapidly approaching and…
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Month 23, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, What do you do when you are startled out of bed in the wee hours of the morning by a screaming toddler – a toddler who knows only one volume when they speak? When I walk in to the bedroom, I discover a boy with disheveled hair, big bright eyes, and very soiled…
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Month 47
Dear Olivia, Why must bedtime be such a production? I know kids despise bed and they pull out every stop to prolong the inevitable but my goodness, I am spent when I finally get you down. 7:30 rolls around and I know the major hurdle of the day is upon me and I muster up…
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Month 22, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, I’m sorry to inform you but Olivia has turned you in to her very own life size doll. You are at that right age where you’re gullible enough to do what ever she says and still small enough that when you don’t want to do something she tells you to do, she’s still…