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Room To Grow: Halloween is for kids of all ages.

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Since having kids I’ve noticed a few major differences between the Halloween of today and the Halloween I remember.

But one of the things that most pains my Halloween-loving heart is the opposition some older trick-or-treaters face. Maybe I’m just remembering the Halloweens of...

Room to Grow: The School Bus Shuffle

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Every morning when the alarm goes off, my husband and I begin a quiet battle. One of us has to get up right away to get the two oldest kids off to school, while the other gets to sleep for another half-hour or so, and we'll do anything in our limited early-morning power to avoid being the...

Room To Grow: Eating for one...and one-one-thousandth?

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According to the pregnancy calendar on BabyCenter.com, my baby currently weighs about 3.5 ounces. Using some rough and rudimentary math that will likely turn out to be incorrect (guess I better start outsourcing my 5th-grader's homework help), that means that my baby is a little more...

Room To Grow: You're having how many?

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Last week, it finally happened: a man on an elevator asked the question, "So, when are you due?" I knew it was just a matter of time. I'm 15 weeks along, and for the last couple of weeks I've been getting a lot of those "wow her belly looks kinda big but no way am I gonna ask if she's pregnant" looks. Finally, I seem to have broken through the barricade to the point where brave (or foolish) souls will not only assume I'm probably pregnant, but actually ask. I admitted that he was the first person who'd asked, and actually stumbled around for a minute trying to remember how to answer his question. When am I due, again? Finally I remembered. "March." "First baby?" he asked with just a flicker of a patronizing smile on his face. "No, uh...fifth." I said.