About 10 months ago, our family drove from Seattle to California. We had a fantastically raucous road trip, and loved most every minute of it. However, there were some basic road trip rules that my kids failed to absorb. If I were to write a book of road trip tips for my small boys, it [...]
“Mommy, does that go on my face like a mask?” my four-year-old son curiously blurted out when I showed him his, uh, sports cup for t-ball. You know how most parents will pass gender specific questions on to the other spouse for topics they don’t want to deal with? Well, when you are a single [...]
Like everyone else, I’m addicted to Facebook. I update my status with carefully-crafted, pithy bon mots, links to my writing, or baby photos when I’m at a loss for words and just want to bait my friends into boosting my ego (every time I log on to Mark Zuckerberg’s Digital Crack Den, I feel like [...]
Recently, we had a completely new experience. My kids and I (I can’t really blame my husband, because he was collecting our drinks at the time) managed to drive another family right out of Starbucks. I noticed them when we arrived: two kids, a little older than ours. One of them, an angelic curly blonde, [...]
Like most mothers, I spend a lot of time thinking that my children are the brightest, deepest, most creative and perceptive boys one could possibly have, potty-training issues aside. And they are. But there are times when even I doubt their capacity for genius. For example: I try to teach him how to blow a [...]
Recently, a small member of our family may or may not have swallowed a Lego and given us all a good scare and a trip to the emergency room. This event (whether or not it happened) may have inspired a lengthy conversation about ”good rules to live by.” “Legos are for building, not for eating” was tactfully left [...]
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