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Fizzy Bath Bombs Away!
Before Christmas, I discovered a brand new Lush store had opened at the mall. I’d been looking for new bath stuff for the kids after my not-so-successful attempt at making shampoo. I had forgotten...
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Google, Hypochondria, and Messages from the Universe
I’ve been sick: terribly, terribly sick. Between Google and my imagination, in the last two months I’ve had skin cancer, lung cancer (which would make me a major medical phenomenon because I convinced...
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The Leprechaun Came!
This St. Patrick’s day tradition is a great hit at our house. The boys build a box to catch a leprechaun. This year they glued clover to the outside of the box. They didn’t catch a leprechaun but he...
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A Tale of Two Potties
How would you ever get a kid off this thing? Yep. You guessed it. Toilet training or, in the politically correct language of today, toilet learning. My youngest son just took his first b.m. on the real...
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A Fearless Child in a Fearful World
He sat down, pretzel in one hand and lemonade in the other. He fit perfectly on the small ledge, his feet easily touched the ground. “I’ll wait out here,” he said through a mouthful of pretzel. “Mmmm....
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Dentist to Easter Bunny: “Cease and Desist”
Every year we read The Night Before Easter by Natasha Wing. The story is awesome and we love it but the Easter Bunny in the book brings an excessive amount of candy. “Is the Easter Bunny going to drop...
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Orange You Glad I’m a Carrot Smoothie
My oldest son turns his nose up at green smoothies. I have to start where we are so I put a carrot in this one to give it a beautiful orange color. Orange You Glad I’m a Carrot Smoothie 1.5 cups...
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Through the Door Lightly
The door to your house/flat/apartment/abode has come unstuck in time. The next time you walk through it, you find yourself in the same place, but a different time entirely. Where are you, and what...
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Forget the Jones’; I Couldn’t Keep Up With the Sears’
He wears him well. I’m a parenting book junkie. I’ve easily read over 100 parenting books. Some of them have helped me immensely, some were total garbage, and some of them made me feel very bad about...
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The Great Paradox of Motherhood
We walked hand in hand into the schoolyard. “Well, today’s the last day of Kindergarten, he said, “Are you happy, Mom?” “I have mixed feelings. It’s bittersweet.” “What does bittersweet mean?” “It...
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My Summer of Waiting for Patience
“Patience is a kind of love. A love that is its own explanation in bewildered circumstance. It is an old, old woman placing a wrinkled-parchment hand against the cheek of a reckless child. Because her...
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