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Benjamin On Command from Pammer on Vimeo.

Dear Benjamin, Again, Mommy’s a little late. But you see, Little Dude, there has been much afoot around your home these past weeks and, well, the blogging? Notsomuch. What a bunch of months. Really. Although you are truly becoming quite the little person each day, there is a lot that happened to you these months [...]

This week I sent in The Swimmy’s camp application for this summer. Normally that is no big deal (except, uh, for the PRICE of entertaining her tiny ass all summer). But this application was a little different. This will be the first summer she goes to “sleep away” camp. For 10 whole days. Dude. Don’t [...]

A local high school girls basketball coach died last week from complications treating acute leukemia. His students did what most high school kids do in this situation, they spelled out “We Love You Coach [Name]” in styrofoam cups stuffed in the chainlink fench and went about trying to make sense of their own grief and [...]

The Swimmy’s school has a curriculum piece that deals with a key character trait each week. For example, “Responsible” or “Truthful”. You get the picture. Well, before school let out they had one that would last for the entire month. One elementary school put it on the billboard/marquis on its lawn: “Kindness”. In true Swimmy [...]