By Megan My big kid’s growin’ up way faster than it ever occured to me she would, y’all. I think what brings it all home for me lately is watching my littler kid come into himself, as it were. He’s all laughter and mirth, my funny boy, full of mischief and chatty as the day…
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Heaven Can Wait. (Spongebob Saves the Day.)
By Megan Bean and I sat over lunch the other day and I coaxed her to eat her carrots the same way I always do: Make sure you eat all those carrots, they’ll help you grow up big and strong. “Will I be bigger than YOU if I eat my carrots?” “Well, not immediately bigger…
The Wonders of the Aging Body, According to a Four Year Old
By Megan I’ve been working on coming to friendly terms with my post-second-baby, forty-one year old body lately, with its new SillyPutty-like stretches and sags, its dedication to growing hair where I don’t want it and shedding hair where I do, and its obsession with simultaneously producing pimples and wrinkles so fast I can almost…
Diaper That Baby With A Little Less Moolah
Last week when Megan so graciously allowed me to fill her in her comfy, cozy Monday spot here, I talked about how much I learn from my children daily. Many of the things I’ve learned since becoming a parent lay in the realm of the abstract – piercing joy, unspeakable devotion, life-changing love . . ….
Lerin’s Recommended Baby Registry Items, Part One
A couple of my favorite Mama-bloggers have agreed to share their thoughts with y’all this month while I’m spending some extra time with my family on these beautiful May weekends. This week and next, my sweet, precious, WISE friend Lerin will be providing you with her own insights on which items a family REALLY needs…
Simply Spring
By Megan The weather caught up with the calendar this past week, and finally the kids and I could enjoy the yellow-blue prairie afternoon sun. For three days running, I opened my doors and stretched and blinked and climbed into the outdoors with my babies, their cheeks still creased from their warm flannel beds. Peabody…
Got Peanut Allergies?
By Megan We eat the peanuts at my house. We eat fistfuls of salted, dry-roasted peanuts, boiled peanuts, peanut-butter oatmeal bars, Kung Pao chicken with extra peanuts, peanut butter cookies, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and our all-time favorite quick and healthy snack-on-the-go, the simple, elegant, delicious peanut butter spoon. My husband was born and…
Ten Tips for Mothers Expecting Their Second Babies
By Megan “Wow, looks like my humor has really missed the mark this time! I hope some mothers will still find my suggestions below helpful, even though my slight exaggerations in the interest of a laugh seem to be detracting from the original intent behind my post. Having a second baby is wonderful and fun…
Here Comes The Sun Doot’n Do Do
By Megan My Grandmama used to make this wholesome, delicious, refreshingly citrus-y little frozen dessert snack for my sister and me and our two cousins when we’d all descend upon her of a summer weekend. It was truly sunshine in a bowl, and makes the perfect, PERFECT healthy alternative to those sugary frozen treats our…
Just, You Know, Don’t Expect Us to be Moving Very Fast
By Megan You know what may turn out to be the best thing about my family’s little trip down South last month? Not the sun, or the sand, or the visiting with family, or even the pound after pound of fresh, delicious seafood, but this: Long about mid-trip, I looked over at Al, and he…