Author Archives: Alicia

Guest Napper #124 – Chilly Charlie

Which of you is a Fall enthusiast? How many of you secretly watch the Peanuts holiday specials during the warmer months, dreaming of falling leaves, sincere pumpkin patches, and small-but-mighty Christmas trees? Guilty as charged. But I’ve got good company, apparently, in Charlie. This is a fellow cold weather enthusiast, friends. Although I would counsel …

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Guest Nappers #122 and #123: Doubled Over

It won’t take much for me to explain why I loved this twin nap. Apparently, Lance and Austin refused to take a nap for their daddy. As we all know, though, the siren song of sleep is impossible for children this age to resist for long. The result was, as you see, that Lance succumbed …

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Guest Napper #121 – Snoozin’ on Seatbelt

Okay, parents. Can we be real? My kids are 3 and 5 and how did I somehow take on a full-time job as a soccer mom when my kids don’t play soccer? We have two kids in half-day school…opposite halves of the day. Then I have appointments and more appointments and swimming lessons and my …

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Guest Napper #120 – Canine Cuddle

This morning, we found my son’s Blue Puppy stuck in the branches of our neighbors’ tree. I’m not sure if he left it there, in a fit of imagination, or if they kindly hung it for us to find, like a lost mitten. Either way, he loves his stuffed friend. I’m sure he’d much rather …

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