By Megan “Wait Mama,” Bean called after me as I trotted toward the elevator at a Lexington, Kentucky hotel, an overnight stop on the drive home to Chicago from coastal Carolina, “Let’s sit down for a minute.” So we found a sofa in a quiet corner of the lobby and sat. Baby boy Peabody stood…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Getting the Point
By DeeDee It isn’t difficult for me to stay apprised of all the goings on around here. I boast of that mother’s intuition thing, and also it doesn’t hurt to have a couple of small narcs underfoot. No one has any problem letting me know when someone else has committed an infraction. I suppose because…
A Dose of Humor – How to Impress Kids with Your Caretaking.
5 Minutes for Parenting’s weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to help 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 also join in by linking in your funniest moment of the week,…
Party planning gone AWFUL
By Cassie So I get a big fat F in party planning. It started when I was ten years old. I invited my entire family over for a “Mothers Day Feast.” I had seen this beautiful meal in a magazine and I was going to prepare it all by myself. An hour before the dinner…
It’s Over, March.
By Beck It will be March Break in slightly over a week, which fills me with ominous foreboding. We have an unfortunate health history regarding March Break, and while I think it’s largely coincidence, another part of me believes pretty firmly that we have some sort of March Break Curse. Let’s see the proof! 1)…
The Garden: A Half Parable
By Kelly It was a beautiful spring day. My husband was in our backyard, facing the lake, which was rippling blue-green in the sunlight. But he wasn’t watching the waves. He was ripping up the grass, beating back a hedge of overgrown bushes and pounding in stakes. He was creating a garden. For me. Up…
Blasphemy
By Veronica “There’s no such thing as…” my three-year-old blurted out in the middle of church yesterday. I don’t know what word she was going to say next – it could have been anything from unicorns to effective low-flow toilets – but I swooped her up and carried her out of the sanctuary anyway. I…
Dear Miss Poki Bear
While Megan is away, Vanessa from I Never Grew Up is sharing a post with us. I write to my children once a month, you could maybe call it journaling for them, but mostly I love writing to my kids about how much I love them. Some months it is about a fun vacation we…