Monthly Archives: April 2009

A Dose of Humor – Parents are So Weird

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…

for the record

By Cassie When I started writing here I thought that blogging about single parenting would be simple. Married people are always astounded at what you can accomplish without a husband. I hear women all of the time talk about their husbands being gone for business and not knowing how single parents do it all. I…

The Bear Went Over The Mountain

By Beck Where I live is very, very rocky – not mountains, really, but just giant outcroppings of rocks and hills – and the other day my kids were outside and I was occupying myself my cleaning up the detrius of winter (its coffee cups and chip bags) when I realized that not one of…

Great Expectations

By Kelly If you want to know what kind of day I’m having, you need ask only one simple question: Has the baby napped? If yes, then I’m having a glorious day, abounding in productivity and sprinkled with  sunshine and rainbows. If no, then I’m having a frustrating day, thick with clouds and whining. Of…

Parenting Like Susanna Wesley

By Veronica I used to work with a woman who came from a family of twelve children. When she described her family, she would complain, often quite bitterly, that she never got to be alone with her mother. My officemate did not talk about all the wonderful traits she had acquired in her large family…

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…

Not The Easter Picture I Planned

By Stephanie It’s not that we think dyeing eggs or candy-filled Easter baskets are wrong. It just isn’t a tradition we’ve really done with our boys. Maybe we will next year or someday if the mood strikes us. But today they don’t know any different, and I saved money and sanity- no Easter grass to…

A Dose of Humor – A Day at the Beach

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…

Purses With Holes

Guest Post by Marybeth Whalen Haggai 1:5b-6, “Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in…

And Bingo Was His Name-O

By Beck The Baby has an Easter party to go to tomorrow. I’ve already made trays of bunny cupcakes, since I’m always on the snack list because a) she has celiac disease and b) because she’s my third kid and I’m pretty calm about making snacks for kid parties at this point. All of the…