please notice the new “15 minutes” link. please check it out. this is not one of those random-it-might-be-a-real-story, links. this little boy is 3. he is a twin. he has 12 brothers and sisters (and you thought we had a lot!). his parents were my husband’s youth directors when he was in high school.

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i started writing this post and about a paragraph in i realized it was only making me unhappier to write it. so i stopped, erased it, and thought, “what would make me better?” and my words to my oldest on the way home tonight came back to me, “if you have nothing nice to say –

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