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• The Irrestistable Henry House
  Written by by Lisa Grunwald
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For this month, we have a little bit of a Mothers’ Day theme happening. O-Mama is always celebrating Moms—especially opinionated Moms…so this month’s books are about Moms—and our special, joyful and sometimes complicated relationships with our kids!

Rainier Maria Rilke (one of my very favorite poets) said: "The knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance."

That's an interesting idea. Especially to parents --- we've all felt it. The ticking clock. That guilty feeling you have when your child is a psychotic toddler and you find yourself wishing time away—just a few months or even a year, just to get you through the terrible 2’s and 3’s. How the days are long, but the years are short. How our kids can't know what they mean to us until they have kids who mean everything to them.

10 ½ years ago, I had my...

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