Jeffrey McManus

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Had a spectacular afternoon at the pool with my son today. The pool was crowded but the weather was perfect. And taking him to the pool is always a joy because this kid loves to swim. He jumps into the pool with no encouragement and he loves to dunk himself under the [...]

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Link: Boy, 6, Tries to Drive to Applebees
"A 6-year-old boy was hungry and decided he’d go to Applebees. So he grabbed the car keys, took his booster seat from the back seat of his grandmother’s car and placed it in the driver’s seat, then made a go of driving himself to the restaurant Tuesday.
He made [...]

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  breakfast by jeffreymcmanus.
For the first three to five years of a kid’s life pretty much everything they say is a tape recording of something they’ve heard you say. Once they turn five, they start school and they start picking up all kinds of new stuff to say. Most of the [...]

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I wasn’t going to post anything about this on the blog (like, ever) because I didn’t want to contribute to the ongoing grief-o-rama — and also, to be honest, this isn’t terribly easy for me to write about. But after reading Marybeth’s eloquent post about how she feels on 9/11 as a parent, I thought [...]

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Somehow in the past couple of weeks our little baby boy started walking around the house. What a pain in the butt. Now he’s yanking stuff off the shelves and appearing in inconvenient places. This is going to continue to be a pain until he’s able to go to the fridge to get daddy a [...]

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Last day of school by jeffreymcmanus.
Congratulations to my #1 girl Celeste, whose last day of kindergarten is today.
It’s funny, I’ve been pumping her up for months about how cool it is to get out of school, to not have to do homework and to be able to vegetate for two and [...]

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Cowboy Rev by jeffreymcmanus.
Happy birthday to my main man Rev, who turns 1 year old today.

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