Sunday night after a sumptuous dinner, my mother intently looked at the turned off television and asked, "What shows are on today? Today is Sunday, right?" Dana answered, "None. "No-palabas" (no TV show) day today
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bible story
One cold night as we were about to sleep, Dana asked permission to bring her talking cat Angela, an app on my phone, to sleep. Me:Why do you still take care of Angela when you
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name-calling
The sun was high. I was driving our car while kids were seated together. Chantry was quiet while Ate Hale kept on talking. She was giving me 99 questions in a span of 15 minutes;
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vocabulary
"Babies! Babies! Where are my babies?" This is how I often call my kids as my term of endearment to them. Then suddenly, today, someone is complaining. "I'm not a baby anymore," says my four-foot-eight-year-old
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heart-to-heart humor
I and Hale were examining the globe as we identified the 7 continents of the world in preparation for her Science exam. Asia, Antarctica, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. As we turned
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humor
So the little girl clearly told me to take care of her slime this morning but I forgot it in the car. To avoid her disappointment, I asked her daddy to pretend he purposely took
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humor
"Mama, there's a cockroach!" The action was real. I hurried toward the foot of the bed to go to where Chantry and Hale were pointing and saw the shadow of the cockroach hiding beneath the
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humor
Hale explored our dining room. She scratched her head, searched under our sturdy antiquated Narra table pretending to be oblivious of my presence. She asked "Where's my cow?" She kept on asking this while walking
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humor
At a computer shop today, two ten-year-old kids were fighting over an online game. Hale heard this so she approached them and went into their midst with both of her hands signaling them to stop.
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friendship peacemaker poppa
