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Mother of the year award right here. Just left my 9-year-old at home alone without saying a word to her. ?? She DID go to her friend’s earlier. And then came home and told me said friend wasn’t home - a fact I completely forgot as I left to pick up the boys from church. View this post on Instagram Excellence at getting the bouncy thing into the hoop thing. A post shared by Kristen Howerton (@kristenhowerton) on Feb 16, 2019 . . .
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Love getting time with just the oldest. We made a foodie dinner together that the girls would have cried about and now watching Blackkklansman. ✊? (Target’s meal kits = surprisingly good.) At what age did your kids stop “playing pretend?” I only have one kid left who still really plays with toys and not gonna like ... I will be sad when that stage is over. At what age did your kids stop “playing pretend?” I only have one kid left who still really plays with toys and not . . .
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Some of the cute classroom valentines my kids picked from @minted, as well as some lovely custom art prints I ordered for myself and for my own Valentine. ? ❤️ http://bit.ly/mintedvalentine View this post on Instagram We have a new foreign exchange student from India staying with us for a few months and I regularly wonder what he thinks of our constant musical theater sing-alongs in the kitchen ... A post shared . . .
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Rounding out our “weekend of theater” with @hellodollybway at @segerstromarts. This is a classic but it’s a play I’ve somehow never seen! The boys are off at winter camp so I surprised the girls with a weekend of theater. Little Women last night at a local high school. Be More Chill today at @broadwayontour. And Hello Dolly tonight at @segerstromarts “Skateboarding will be an inexpensive hobby for the boys,” . . .
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So much fun watching my girls in Annie tonight. If you are local there are two more shows tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon. A few changes in the last 10 years: went from 2 to 4 kids, switched my hair to a middle part, and of course a divorce and a new relationship ... Sometimes you find friends you laugh with. You share the same brand of sarcasm and you cackle with each other until someone has to run to the bathroom. You mock as a love language. You talk in gifs. You giggle until your . . .
Jafta’s Birthday Adventure
Jafta spent his 14th birthday on a plane en route to Tokyo and it was the shortest birthday of his life . . . because of the time change and travel time, it was only his birthday for about 6 hours. Hopefully the fun we had in Tokyo made up for it, but his actual birthday was kind of a dud. So I promised him we would do something fun when we got back. I think there is no one harder to throw a party for than teenage boys. They are difficult to impress and finicky and even amongst a friend . . .
The Christmas Letter || On Thursdays I post from the vault. This post is from December 2008.
On Thursdays I post from the vault. This post is from December 2008. One of the things I love the most about the Christmas season is getting all of the Christmas cards in the mail. I love catching up with friends this way, seeing photos of everyone's growing families, and reading about what everyone is up to. Over the years, I have heard a few people mock the tradition of Christmas letters, wondering who really reads them. Um, I do. I read every one of them. I love them. I've always been a . . .
Christmas and the heavyness of being without a church
photo by David Trotter I went to a Christmas Eve service with my kids and ex-husband today. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a Christmas Eve service, for a variety of reasons, least of which is the fact that Mark and I try to spend that day together for the kids and there is nothing more awkward than going to church where that act of walking in the door together springs into action a number of people excited to pastor us back into marriage, rather than accepting us as we are - a . . .
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From New York to France to Spain to Tokyo, showing up to support @aus_rivers is a tough job but I do it out of the goodness of my heart. Now working on a list of new countries I’d like him to get gigs in where I can come “support” him more. Joined by by dad and his wife today, taking in the Imperial Palace and Zoji Shrine before my nephew’s show. ? ? ?? (This is my best emoji work yet) Why yes I did leave my children unattended at a stupid American fast-food joint while I walked across . . .
Holiday Fun
The kids and I had a great holiday season full of many of our favorite traditions. It's funny how much my kids have come to love traditions - I think they appreciate that while our family has changed, our holiday rhythms have not. We started by going to Winter Fest OC - a holiday extravaganza at the fairgrounds of Orange County. This was our third year going and we always have so much fun. There is sledding, fair rides, holiday lights and food . . . but my kids love the tents of snow play . . .
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