Milestone Alert: My now-officially-a-middle-schooler son got invited to his first for-no-reason-other-than-to-get-together-and-goof-off party. It was last Thursday night. I KNOW. Yikes. I am so not ready for teendom. But we did let him go, even though: We didn’t find out about it when he received the invitation early in the week, but rather TWO HOURS before [...]

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Last day of school? Check. Rainy afternoon with kids communing with Cartoon Network? Check. Three separate awards ceremonies for three kids on three separate days? Check, check and check. Three opportunities to get a numb butt from sitting on those hard metal chairs? Check. Three yearbooks sticky with cake and/or ice cream from class parties? [...]

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