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I really should stop recommending everyone go over to Lileks’ Bleat <\/a>column, since I’m sure anyone with discriminating taste goes there anyway. But since he’s channeling life from my house, I just had to quote this passage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You try making supper with a toddler hanging on your leg whining Daaaadeee, daaaadeee. Do puzzle. Do puzzle.<\/i> (Cue super-adorable voice:) Do budderfie puzzle together<\/u>, Daddee.<\/i> So I pick her up to go do the butterfly puzzle together, and am rewarded with \u201cI love you, Daddee.\u201d So sweet.
\nYou have to remember that a few minutes later when she pours a glass of juice on the table and slaps her palms on the little sticky lake, just because she can.<\/p>\n

Extra props to Margie, who gets to deal with this more often than I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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