By Kelly The state of Minnesota apparently took an Instant Summer pill today. It’s so beautiful outside, it hurts. (Or maybe that’s just the 97-degree sunshine hitting my arms.) The kids in our neighborhood are riding bikes, shouting greetings, begging for another popsicle. According to one little girl, her whole body is boiling! As if…
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Memories and Kindergarten Orientation
By Veronica Last week I took my oldest daughter to kindergarten orientation. I did not sleep well the night before. I lay in bed, rigid and worried. I could not relax. I could not break my mind from thinking of all the things that might go wrong. We seriously considered homeschooling. My sister and my…
Unexpected Education, by Megan Tietz of SortaCrunchy
Megan is the much-humbled, often-stumped mama to two smarter-than-she’ll-ever-be little girls. She advocates an uncomplicated approach to parenting at Simple Kids and writes about faith, mothering, and natural living (sorta) at SortaCrunchy. Five years ago this month, those two little lines turned up pink and I officially kicked off the all-day, all-night party that is…
Falling into Place
By Cassie Last year at this time I had started a new job. I was the office manager at a large daycare center. It was my first full time job! I was so excited going to the office everyday. I felt like it was my first steps to a real career. I soon realized that…
A Dose of Humor – Assessing Your Kindergarten Readiness
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…
Little Dolls
By Beck When I was young, I had very decided tastes in names: I liked them antique. I liked them flowery. I liked them long and rippling with syllables. Arabella! Cordelia! Sebastian! And then I got married and pregnant and found out that my husband expected to have some say in what our children would…
Do Over
By Kelly The morning has not gone well. I had hoped to get up early and write, something I rarely do, but hold as an option of last resort when my brain is too mushy to be creative after the kids go to bed. (And last night, my brain was mushy by 9:00 PM; I…
Neighbors. Or Neighbours. Depends where you live.
By Veronica Our neighbor Bob lets his dog poop in our yard. And he doesn’t clean it up. It is exasperating to take my children out to play – my arms full of baby – and find that our small yard is not “safe” for running in. I have apparently muttered about this too often…
Lerin’s Recommended Baby Registry List, Part Two
Hello again! Part One of this series contained some general tips about baby registry and a list of my personal “must-haves” for a newborn baby. This post will cover the items I recommend buying as baby grows and the “luxury” items that are great to have but not absolutely necessary. If you are one of…
The Mother Of All Mother’s Days
By Stephanie (I wrote this post last year as I was expecting my fourth child, my first girl.) Stephanie is having a girl. I will have a daughter. I think I’m still in shock, to be honest. I never thought of myself as a Mom to a girl. It makes me think about the daughter…