<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">No matter how many times I cringe at the thought of how dirty the sand boxes are at playgrounds, I still allow my kidlets to jump right in when they see one.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Just don't have it in me to deny sweet little faces the joy they get from digging tunnels and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">throwing sand at me</span> shoveling sand with other children in the sandbox.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And sometimes I join them.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I've been going to the Billy Johnson playground since I was a child. It's one of my favorite playgrounds in Central Park.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">There is just something about that built-in slide. Natalie loves it.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">It's so fun that sometimes even big kids show up to enjoy it.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">(Yes that's <a href="http://www.citizenofthemonth.com">Neil</a> … complete coincidence… Manhattan is so small.)
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">This is why I love living in Manhattan, no matter where we are there's a playground nearby for them to enjoy.
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</p><p style="background: white"><span style="color:#444444; font-family:Georgia"><span style="font-size:10pt"><strong>Next stop </strong>Natalie's with Nana for a few days. She has her Tae Kwan Do test on Thursday. The boys are with their dad. I'm planning a last minute end of summer road trip.</span><span style="font-size:9pt">
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</p><p style="background: white"><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt"><span style="color:#444444"><strong>Car Song</strong> – <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JBTSLgE9cI"></a></span>Playground<span style="color:#444444"> by Another Bad Creation (ABC) "This is what I see at the playground… Ya Know" </span></span></p>