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Love By Any Other Name Is Still Love -- And Sometimes A Napkin

Lisa Belkin

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When my son was 3, he announced he no longer wanted to be kissed, because he had seen kissing on TV, and he didn't like it.

But those cheeks -- they NEEDED kissing -- so I would sneak into his room at night and do what needed to be done.

On Reddit, a mom who goes by Michellehas2ls writes of her 11-year-old daughter's declaration that she is "too old for notes in her lunchbox."

But that lunch box, it NEEDS filling. So Mom did what the Mom's gotta do.

Another mom chose to channel her napkin art inspiration another way...

Nina Levy's Napkin Art: The Not For A Lunchbox/24 Hour Series

12:30 am(01 of12)

Illustrating napkins. (credit:Nina Levy)

1:30 am(02 of12)

Listening to old podcasts. (credit:Nina Levy)

2:30 am(03 of12)

With the boys. (credit:Nina Levy)

7:00 am(04 of12)

Taking a photo of the day's napkin. (credit:Nina Levy)

7:15 am(05 of12)

"[J]ust before we need to race out the door on our way to school, the kids are (not) hard at work, getting dressed, brushing their teeth, checking their backpacks...." (credit:Nina Levy)

7:40 am(06 of12)

"[A]bout ten minutes after we should have left for school." (The boys are in sleeping bags.) (credit:Nina Levy)

7:45-8:15 am(07 of12)

"[O]ur morning commute to school, when we have the opportunity for meaningful parent/child conversation." (credit:Nina Levy)

8:45 am(08 of12)

The ride home after dropping the kids off at school. (credit:Nina Levy)

3:30 pm(09 of12)

Driving over the Manhattan Bridge on the way to a therapy session (including an "obscure weapons related spelling question"). (credit:Nina Levy)

3:40 pm(10 of12)

"Helpful pedestrians express concern for my children's welfare." (credit:Nina Levy)

6:15 pm(11 of12)

Back home to Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge. (credit:Nina Levy)

8:00 pm(12 of12)

"Post dinner wrestling and couch abuse." (credit:Nina Levy)

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