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  Well, this will be my last blog on Babble.  I can't thank you all enough for caring enough to check in on the kids and me and to those of you who wrote comments, thank you so much for your sage advice.   I've enjoyed filling you in on our comings and goings (although sweet A was less thrilled about how much I like ...

    There's nothing to make your heart explode in your chest like seeing your son in his first tux.     And your daughter her first time as a flower girl. My cousin Eileen just got married last weekend at a mansion off of Fifth Avenue (turned into her Catholic school).  The kids fit right in with the painted ...

This was our first week with our new arrangement and all in all it's been going pretty well.  The hardest part has been Chet. After a month in Georgia with his mother and grandmother it's been a little hard for him up here.  He just said that the huge log home in the woods on a lake where they live is his real home.  ...

A huge week for us here. The kids, Ava and Chet finally came home!  I missed them terribly. I hadn't seen them in two weeks. They're sleeping now. I worked them to the bone and they start school in two days poor things.  But I'm getting ahead of myself.     A and I have been working at least twelve hours a day ...

I talk to my kids every day and saw them just last week but really, this month has been about getting to know M, A's amazing little girl.  I find myself calling her "Ava" by mistake sometimes because her antics so bring me back to how my now ten-year-old used to be when she was just two. Here she is jumping on the Dora bed that ...

    I flew down from Manhattan to celebrate Chet's actual 7th birthday with him down in Social Circle, GA, where he and Ava spend the month of August with their grandparents, my ex's mom and step dad and their cousins.  My ex has also been living down there for the past two years, ever since I moved the kids to New ...

    I can't believe how clean their room is when they're not in it.  And I can't believe how I much I miss those loud, (sometimes) pains in the asses. I'm having a deep and wonderful time here with just A and M and I'm spending some alone time just with M so A can write and that has been a treat, but I really, ...

  This is always an odd time of year for me.  Ava and Chet  fly down to rural Georgia to spend August with their mom, their grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle and cousins.  I know it's important for them and I really love the family down there and they love my kids and me, but still, after just about two days without them I ...

    Usually summers move lazily around here but ours is traveling at warp speed.  As soon as we returned from France where the three of us were a quiet little family we've returned to  A and M and a very full house.  Neither A nor I are quite sure how it is that we have come to be living together but at least for me ...

    Though we were only gone for a two weeks, it felt like months.  We all needed it.  We're of course close, the three of us, but in Paris, and then in the South of France we were inseparable.  It was hard to show them my favorite city in just four days but I tried.  Besides the Eiffel Tower we took a bateau ...