By Kelly Corey and I went for a walk after dinner tonight. The older kids were playing with friends in the neighborhood, laughing and riding bikes in the golden, evening twilight. So it was just me, my husband, our 20-month-old Teyla and the dog. Corey and I chatted about Natalie’s first day of third grade…
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We See, We Saw
By Gretchen “Mommy! There are numbers on that clock!” My son pointed to the clock mounted on the kitchen wall. It was the morning after he got glasses. Suddenly? He could see. The next few days featured more revelations: Mountains had bumps and lumps! Water had waves! The world was no longer fuzzy. It…
A Dose of Humor – The Bad Samaritan(s)
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. Now you can…
Rated R For Repeat AND For Really Horrible
By Beck This is a re-print of an old post. I’m scattered this week, but I hope to be back to my normal chatty self next week. And did I ever get over the trauma that I wrote about in this post? Oh, apparently. The note of hysteria in this post has always amused me….
Air Travel, Not Scare Travel: Navigating the Not-So-Friendly Skies with your Kids
By Kelly I knew we’d get the looks. Anyone traveling by plane with three kids, as we did last week, is bound to be on the receiving end of a few “please don’t sit by me” glances. And when we walked up to security, it’s amazing to watch the gait of our fellow travelers quicken,…
What’s in YOUR Mom-Purse?
By Megan Back before I had kids, I used to buy purses based on their color. Their texture. The feel of the leather. The way they smelled. The way they added that perfect je ne sais quoi to an outfit. Now that I’m a wife and Mom, I select a handbag based on how big…
Her Spot on the Food Chain
By DeeDee My husband was out of town on business last week. The first night he was gone, Cailey came to visit me in the middle of dark thirty. “I had a bad dream…” Not waiting for a lengthy description, I escorted her back to her own bed in a hurry. Because that’s the kind…
A Dose of Humor – Definitely Smarter than an Eighth Grader
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. Now you can…
Cruel Summer
By Beck “In headaches and in worry, vaguely life leaks away,” wrote W.H. Auden. And that is how life is feeling these days for me – leaking away while I fret over things, the seasons flitting dully past. This has been a rainy, muted summer, not full of our usual beach trips and happy farm…
Brotherly Love
By Kelly I carry the baby from the bathroom. She’s wrapped in a hooded towel like a plump, wet burrito. Her brother, wrapped in his own towel combo, trails behind and makes the following announcement about his sister. “Mom, tomorrow night, I’m going to marry Teyla.” I pause. It’s true that my family tree can…