From 5 Minutes for Parentin By Kelly This is my last Pregnancy Journal post, friends, because (cue the angels and confetti) I am no longer pregnant. Baby Kieran joined our family on May 7 (birth story is here), and we’ve been head over heels ever since. I am grateful the editorial staff here at 5…
Monthly Archives: June 2010
$600 for Binoculars? YAKM!!
By Michael My Sunday magazine supplement had a great article over the weekend about the best gift ideas for “dads and grads.” Notice how dads rank so high that we don’t even get our own gift list. Even worse, note how graduating females are assumed to want the same gifts as both 18-year-old high school…
Got My Rubber Sandals, Got My Straw Hat
By Megan Summer’s here, and as anyone who lives in the Midwest (or Northeast, or anywhere winters are frigid and unrelenting and LONG) would be, I am 100% for that. I love the time I get to spend outside with my family these long, beautiful days, and I love the freedom and flexibility in our…
Let go.
(alternately titled – “Spring Cleaning”) Since it is still (technically) spring, let’s devote today’s entry to cleaning out “stuff” – tangible things you hold on to, or negative habits or thoughts you might have. I mentioned last week that I love a clean home, and it really is true. If we haven’t used an object…
Muffins
By Beck The Baby (and whenever I call her that, I feel the need to add that she is five now and NOT ANYTHING LIKE A BABY) just made some muffins, which are baking away in the oven as I write. And because The Baby has food issues, they’re gluten-free and so the chances of…
So Why Should I Thank You?
By Michael Ours was the solitary flag flying on my block yesterday, and I only counted two others as we headed out the various side streets to the main road. Yesterday was Memorial Day. I guess everyone else forgot. In my neighborhood, like 80% of the country, we tend to think of ourselves as Middle…