By Megan I’m reflective, just like everyone else is the first couple of weeks of January, and I’ve come to the conclusion in the past week or so that one of the things I love best about family life is the time in between. Those little moments that happen when we’re all together doing nothing…
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Seven and A Half Minutes
By Megan Friday was the last day of preschool for Bean before Winter Break, and her class put on a Christmas program for the parents. Peabody and I got ALL GUSSIED UP in our Christmas finery and I packed his diaper bag full of snacks and quiet toys and juice and plotted diversionary tactics in…
And Wonders of His Love
By Megan She insists on hanging the breakables. He insists on climbing the ladder. We spend the afternoon listening to carols, spotting and supervising and holding our breath. And in the end, the tree is beautiful. The ornaments are whole. The boy is safe. We sit in the glow and count our blessings. Joy to…
She’s Makin’ a List …
By Megan December’s upon us, and I’ve got my iCalendar open tonight so I can plan out the month and pack it full of some of our favorite holiday traditions. I wanted to list some of my family’s favorite things to look forward to this month (and to remember/anticipate all year long) and invite you…
Honestly, I Don’t Know WHERE She Gets These Ideas! (Ahem.)
By Megan I took the kids up to the library last Thursday morning for story time. Bean sat down among the other children and Peabody sat on her lap. She snuggled him close and beamed with such pride! It was adorable, if I do say so myself. Inevitably (and happily, I might add. I have…
Snow Globe
By Megan The afternoon darkens and cools like a certain kind of late autumn day does, and a slow, chilly rain patters against the windows in the family room – windows that look out on grass still green, but trees nearly leafless and a sky unmistakably Novemberish. This is the invitation I didn’t expect but…
An Impromptu Lesson in McModesty
By Megan Originally published at FriedOkra on November 5, 2008. Bean and I went to McDonald’s this weekend for lunch last week, just the two of us. I got her a Happy Meal. See, I’m doin’ everything I can lately to earn Good Mama points because frankly, I’m not a lot of fun to be…
The Grinch Meets the Great Pumpkin. And It’s Love at First Sight!
By Megan A few nights ago the girls from my neighborhood all went out for dinner together, and inevitably our conversation turned to Saturday’s Trick-or-Treating and related festivities. We all really love seeing our kids and one another’s kids in costume, we love bundling up and trudging along with them, the herd of Star Wars…
The Downish Side of Delaying or Opting Out of Vaccinations, Although I am Very Much Still on the Side of Healthy Caution
By Megan It was one of those weekends that’ll leave you wandering around in your baggy pajama bottoms muttering to yourself by Sunday late-afternoon. One of those weekends that you look back on and think, yep, that was a “what-doesn’t-kill-you-makes-you-stronger” situation, is what that was. And it was. And we’re still alive, so I’m assuming…
The Sleep Log in My Eye
By Megan Oh, how I have judged, people. Nearly five years ago we had our first baby. Our Bean. Now Bean, like all newborns, came out thinking day was night and night was day and turned our world upside down by sleeping when we wanted her to eat, eating when we wanted her to sleep,…