To All the Parents Busy Living Their Lives.
For all the parents who either don’t have the time to debate whether or not their co-sleeping is appropriate, because they’re too busy getting their kids to bed and working and living, or who...
For all the parents who either don’t have the time to debate whether or not their co-sleeping is appropriate, because they’re too busy getting their kids to bed and working and living, or who...
I’m allergic to dogs and I don’t have many kids over to play with my two little girls. I’ve never made homemade Play-Doh and I don’t plan on it either. I prefer my kids...
There is no frustration like a baby screaming for hours and nothing seems to help. (There is no music capable of covering up this screaming inside the close quarters of a car.) There is...
The real reason I dyed my hair blue at age 36 isn’t what many people assumed. It wasn’t because rainbow hair colors are in. (I’m such a big dork that I hadn’t realized blue...
It’s too easy to forget that good people still exist in this world, especially with all of the scary things we see, read and hear in real life and through news. But they do....
The sun sets lower in the sky, and it glares through the large picture window in the living room, and onto the girls’ pink-and-white, chevron-patterned teepee. The intensity of this brightness smooths my oldest...
I saw a comment underneath someone else’s blog the other day. It was from a man saying that his grandmother raised umpteenth kids and never complained about it. At first I couldn’t pinpoint why...
My baby turned one-and-a-half yesterday. It felt like a big deal, even though it was a relatively typical Saturday, only with chocolate cupcakes for dessert. My oldest recently turned 5-and-a-half, and since she has...
“Mommy,” my oldest daughter whispers to me in the black night. My eyes reluctantly open, and it’s too dark to make out more than the profile of her little nose, as she presses her...
We went to the zoo again, and I think we were there for maybe an hour. Maybe. We left because I couldn’t handle it. It was crowded, and I felt thankful for our membership,...