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That is the sound coming from my daughters room. She’s just finished her second guitar lesson. She’s been playing around with a guitar since May and last week she decided she wanted an electric guitar. I told her if she learned to play an acoustic guitar I would get her one. [...]
I was looking at the calendar today and noticed that there are only seven weeks before the start of the new school year. This isn’t something I normally care about, but this year is different. My oldest will heading off to middle school this year. I have mixed feelings about it. [...]
When my oldest was about four her grandfather told her not to step on cracks because it would break her mothers back. A few days later we were walking and I noticed her stepping on a crack in the sidewalk and then looking at me. A few feet later she stepped on another [...]
“In middle school they label you like a soup can.”
That’s what my older daughter told me when we were driving to the store. I waited for her to continue and in a few minutes she did.
“T. says I could be a prep because I am tall, thin, and pretty. I’d have to make my hair [...]