How many times do you think you say NO to your kids every day? Five times? Twenty times? A hundred times? I bet if I kept track, it would be in the triple digits. Easily. Sometimes I say no to them before they can even finish a complete sentence. I’ve been thinking about this a lot. […]
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Because it’s Sunday, dammit.
A couple weeks ago I declared that this upcoming school year was going to be the Year of No. A couple years ago I declared that I was going to stop working on Sundays and make sure I spent time recharging and connecting with my family. That Sunday thing kind of fell by the wayside. […]
The Year of No
In a little more than a month, for the first time in eleven years, all the kids will be in school five days a week. It is a moment I have been both dreading and looking forward to for quite some time now. For the last four thousand days, for every waking hour of the day, my […]