While visions of sugarplums dance in their heads
Submitted by Debra on Saturday, 13 December 2008
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No matter how cantankerous and cranky, no matter how many times a day you hear “I’m not a baby,” in the still of the night they’re still your babies. And they actually seem to like each other.
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Ah geez! How sweet! You hafta love’em even after a rough day when they are all snuggly wubbly like that!
It just cracks me up, the way they yell and scream and call each other names during the day. That was part of the value of all those months of photo stalking. I now can produce the evidence. “SEE! Y’all don’t fight ALL the time.”
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