By Beck It’s suddenly snowy and my house is covered in a crazy, Clark Griswald amount of Christmas lights and we play Christmas music all day long, of course, and there is one Christmas song that makes me have to retreat and cry EVERY time I hear it. And is some haunting medieval carol, song…
Pregnancy Journal: Movement
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly I felt the baby move last week. I was laying in the dark, waiting for sleep to descend, when I felt little flutters way, way, WAY down in my abdomen. I was tempted to chalk it up to gas, and truthfully, I’m never sure about those first baby…
She’s Makin’ a List …
By Megan December’s upon us, and I’ve got my iCalendar open tonight so I can plan out the month and pack it full of some of our favorite holiday traditions. I wanted to list some of my family’s favorite things to look forward to this month (and to remember/anticipate all year long) and invite you…
Socrates is So Much Cooler than Nintendo
By Michael Okay, maybe I missed the boat just a little bit on this one. Immediately after Thanksgiving, when the girls were annotating the toy mazagines like they were researchers at the Library of Congress, the item they circled most often was Nintendo. Neither girl was that big on Barbie and all the girly stuff…
Smelly tree, smelly tree, it’s not your fault
By Gretchen I’ve often complained about our 2007 Christmas Tree. It smelled like teenaged badgers held a little but raucous kegger in the branches. I couldn’t wait to get rid of it—in fact, it was completely stripped of ornaments by the morning of December 26th. No regrets. I guess it’s the hazard of being in…
A Dose of Humor – Dear Baby Dude, Love the Twins.
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. When she’s not finding humor and craziness…
Merry And Bright
The first Sunday of Advent is THIS WEEKEND! Well, that was fast. I love everything about the Christmas season – I love singing carols and wrapping presents and drinking eggnog (sometimes. Sometimes eggnog is like a big cup of snot.) and I love watching the same old Christmas shows every year. I love tradition and…
Because Sometimes The Small Things ARE the Big Things
By Kelly There are days, as a SAHM, when I’m tempted to be less than thankful. I look around at the mess in the living room and the spilled pasta in the kitchen and the bad attitudes on the sofa (also known as my children), and I feel itchy and grouchy. My jeans chafe on…
Carving Out My Niche
By Michael Thanksgiving’s at my sister’s house this week. I hope she’ll let me carve the turkey. Carving the turkey, of course, is a guy thing. No matter how much time mom spends tying and basting and seasoning and schlepping the bird around the kitchen, dad gets the final shot at doing a Rambo on the…
Honestly, I Don’t Know WHERE She Gets These Ideas! (Ahem.)
By Megan I took the kids up to the library last Thursday morning for story time. Bean sat down among the other children and Peabody sat on her lap. She snuggled him close and beamed with such pride! It was adorable, if I do say so myself. Inevitably (and happily, I might add. I have…