Monthly Archives: August 2008

Sea Air

By Veronica I have never lived near the sea, but I know what sea air means. Poetry and novels and histories have built it up in my mind to be the scent of freshness and freedom, wild unpredictability and restoration to good health. I visited the Atlantic a handful of times before I had kids,…

I Feel for You. I Think I Love You.

By Megan Early in the morning of the day I found out I was pregnant with Bean, a few short hours before I’d done any calendar-related math in my head, before I experienced the inexplicable soft, velvety stirring of her inside myself, I drove to work in the cold, bright February dawn, and heard this…

Cake, Ice Cream, and an Excedrin

By DeeDee (Me, circa 1961) Today is my birthday. You can sing to me if you’d like. I won’t be embarrassed. There was a time in my life, that if you took me out to dinner, and the wait staff sauntered over to the table to sing to me, I would slide under the tablecloth….

You Moved Us

This week we are so excited that our very own Megan had her baby boy on Thursday! You can leave your oohs and ahhs and well wishes at her blog Fried Okra. And now for the links that moved us this week… From Stephanie– One of our sister sites is 5 Minutes For Special Needs…

We’re All In This Together

By Stephanie I was recently interviewed by Janice & Susan of 5 Minutes For Mom and was asked about my vision for 5 Minutes For Parenting. One purpose that is so important to me regarding this blog is how I’d love for this to be a site that any Mom can come to and feel…

DW and The Perils Of Parenting

By Beck My husband and I frequently sit around and pick on cartoon character’s parents. Not the parents on cartoons for older kids, because they are uniformly buffoonish and dangerously negligent, but the parents on shows for LITTLE kids. Arthur Read’s parents, for example: they stink. Both work from home and yet Arthur runs around…

Memories in a Flash

By Kelly I finished Connor’s baby book last month. Don’t be impressed. He’ll be five in October. The books — that’s right, I’m confessing, he has baby books, plural, as in more than one — are so mammoth, they really deserve their own birth announcement. “Kelly @ Love Well is thrilled to introduce her newest…

Something I Do Right

By Veronica When Az the Husband and I married, along with our wedding vows we had a handful of private, informal agreements with each other. Some were simple: if we are dinner guests anywhere and I am served custard, he will quietly eat it for me, so I don’t look too rude (I hate custards….

Taking the Angst Out of Introversion

By Megan My husband and I both pretty much put the “I” in introvert, but I bet 9 out of 10 people who know us wouldn’t believe us if we told them that. Though we’re both naturally shy, quiet people, we’ve learned that in order to be comfortable and help others be comfortable with us…

How To Avoid That Morph Into Dragon Mommy

By Mary Ostyn If you’re a mom, you’re familiar with the dilemma. You ask your child to clear a path so no one dies in the night put away his toys. And then you wait. The kid doesn’t budge. You repeat yourself, louder this time just in case he didn’t hear your first request. This…