By Megan As I sit at my desk in the stillness of this Sunday night after a busy, active weekend for our family, I imagine the front of our home as a sleepy, peaceful face, her blinds half-closed like drooping eyelids, her walkway tossed lazily across the front lawn, an arm across a chest slowly rising…
Monthly Archives: September 2009
My Four-Year Old
By Melodee My daughter thought 6:12 a.m. was a fine time to wake up. I thought not, so I rocked her for two minutes and put her back to bed. I think she woke up because she was cold. She was cold because she refused a blanket last night because she is four years old…
A Dose of Humor – Blowoutfits
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. This week is…
Home
By Kelly Corey and I went for a walk after dinner tonight. The older kids were playing with friends in the neighborhood, laughing and riding bikes in the golden, evening twilight. So it was just me, my husband, our 20-month-old Teyla and the dog. Corey and I chatted about Natalie’s first day of third grade…
Conversation on a Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary
By Veronica Az the Husband: I went to the university Kroger last night to buy you flowers, and the place was full of university students, back from summer break. I saw this dork, and a pretty girl threw her arms around him and pressed her face into his back. Her whole body language said, “At…
We See, We Saw
By Gretchen “Mommy! There are numbers on that clock!” My son pointed to the clock mounted on the kitchen wall. It was the morning after he got glasses. Suddenly? He could see. The next few days featured more revelations: Mountains had bumps and lumps! Water had waves! The world was no longer fuzzy. It…
A Dose of Humor – The Bad Samaritan(s)
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…
Rated R For Repeat AND For Really Horrible
By Beck This is a re-print of an old post. I’m scattered this week, but I hope to be back to my normal chatty self next week. And did I ever get over the trauma that I wrote about in this post? Oh, apparently. The note of hysteria in this post has always amused me….
Air Travel, Not Scare Travel: Navigating the Not-So-Friendly Skies with your Kids
By Kelly I knew we’d get the looks. Anyone traveling by plane with three kids, as we did last week, is bound to be on the receiving end of a few “please don’t sit by me” glances. And when we walked up to security, it’s amazing to watch the gait of our fellow travelers quicken,…