Monthly Archives: January 2010

Paring

By Beck The phone rang very early this morning, which made me reach for it with that feeling of impending doom. What horror would I hear? It was my daughter’s best friend. She needed a vegetable peeler for school. Ah. So after phoning my own mother – I only own one vegetable peeler, which the…

Pregnancy Journal: He’s Moving! I Swear He Is!

From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly The baby boy inside of me moves. A lot. He kicks and jabs and turns and rolls. There are times my abdomen feels like a super-flex garbage bag that can handle the sharpest pokes and prods. There are other times my belly looks like the waves of an…

Great Parenting, with one secret ingredient

By Michael If you want to be a good parent, it helps a lot to have one. Maybe two. One of my nephew’s friends posted a note on FaceBook about his dad’s birthday and said how much he misses his father. We didn’t talk about it, but I know how he feels. My dad was…

Pink is our signature color

By Stephanie I wanted to write out of the ordinary about our very extraordinary Megan (you- or rather y’all- also know her as Fried Okra). She is hitting the pink pavement this fall to walk in The Susan G. Komen 3-Day for The Cure. How have you been touched by breast cancer? For me personally,…

The Family Face

By Beck I posted one of the super-rare pictures of my kids yesterday, because it was my son’s birthday and he asked me, wistfully, why I never put pictures of him on my blog. And so I spent the rest of the day receiving very nice comments over how much people think he looks like me…

Pregnancy Journal: One More Toddler

From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly There are few things as sweet as a two-year-old. There. I’ve said it. I know two is an exhausting age. In the last seven days, Teyla has discovered how to make gum out of toilet paper and toilet water, learned to take off her pants and her diaper,…

My Two Left Foots

By Michael Susan was the worst dancer in the room, maybe the worst in the world. It was retreat weekend for the show choir, when the students got together to learn how to move as a synchronized, rhythmic beast. Think Glee, but with three times as many kids. I was there with my cameras—video and…

Only Their Eyes Be Opened

By Megan Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. —…

A Dose of Humor – Yesterday I Shaved My Head

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. Ayalla is a…

Everything Must Go

By Beck Recently it has been very very very obvious that puberty is lurking right around the corner in my house. My oldest child is turning 11 in a few months and in most ways still seems like a little kid with her dolls still carefully lined up on her shelf, rolling snowmen out in…