By Beck I posted one of the super-rare pictures of my kids yesterday, because it was my son’s birthday and he asked me, wistfully, why I never put pictures of him on my blog. And so I spent the rest of the day receiving very nice comments over how much people think he looks like me…
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Pregnancy Journal: One More Toddler
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly There are few things as sweet as a two-year-old. There. I’ve said it. I know two is an exhausting age. In the last seven days, Teyla has discovered how to make gum out of toilet paper and toilet water, learned to take off her pants and her diaper,…
My Two Left Foots
By Michael Susan was the worst dancer in the room, maybe the worst in the world. It was retreat weekend for the show choir, when the students got together to learn how to move as a synchronized, rhythmic beast. Think Glee, but with three times as many kids. I was there with my cameras—video and…
Only Their Eyes Be Opened
By Megan Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. —…
A Dose of Humor – Yesterday I Shaved My Head
5 Minutes for Parenting’s weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. Ayalla is a…
Everything Must Go
By Beck Recently it has been very very very obvious that puberty is lurking right around the corner in my house. My oldest child is turning 11 in a few months and in most ways still seems like a little kid with her dolls still carefully lined up on her shelf, rolling snowmen out in…
Pregnancy Journal: Maternity Wear — and Not to Wear
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly Today is my birthday. It is my tradition to wear my favorite outfit on my birthday, something that is fun yet practical, comfortable yet chic. When I was in the shower this morning, I mentally sorted through my clothes to see what I might don to make today…
Our Secret Society
By Michael Dwight Eisenhower noted that no battle plan survives the first encounter with the enemy. He could have said the same thing about parenthood. Jill and I had our plans lined up and our reactions anticipated. Then we carried Susan into an empty house and, somehow, we weren’t quite sure about anything anymore. We were…
Afterglowing
By Megan Saturday was “un-decorating” day at our house. It’s a job I’ve dreaded every single year since I was a a little kid. I hate that it’s all over so soon. When Bean asked, out of nowhere, if we could watch old home videos of her as a baby while we did the dreaded…
And I Thought MILK Spoiled Fast.
By Rachel I remember when we were kids, my Mom would complain about how grumpy we’d act after coming home from Grandparents or friend’s houses. About how we got spoiled and had to get back into a routine. NATURALLY, one would assume that since my Mom experienced this as a Mom, she would be super…