By Beck It is – despite the chilly mid-April temperatures and the monsoon rains – summer and the local young people are enjoying their freedom. Primarily, they are enjoying running drunkenly by my house in the middle of the night and waking me up with their loud, happy voices, and in the morning I wake…
You Think That’s Funny?
By Kelly My daughter started giggling before she started speaking. “Mom, remember in that movie about the dogs and the cat trying to get home [“Homeward Bound” for the uninitiated] when the cat said, ‘Oh, you missed me butt-face.’ That was so funny, wasn’t it?” Um. Yeah. I guess there’s a certain je ne sais…
You Should See Me in a Pirate’s Hat
By Veronica There are many things I do not understand about fashion. I do not understand why a headband is uncool, but using sunglasses as a headband is cool. I do not even understand what word we’re supposed to use now instead of cool. But I do understand that moms do not need to bow…
A Mother’s Eulogy.
By Megan I always lamented not having a chance to really know Al’s mother. Although I did spend many hours in her quiet, restful company, she’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a few years before Al and I married, and by the time we met, she was very ill. I do feel blessed I got to…
I was a praying child, but I never prayed for that
By Gretchen From the ages of 9 to 13, I read Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret about a dozen times. I read a lot of the girlhood classics during those years, but kept returning to the bizarre world of the Four Pubescents of the Apocalypse. Maybe I was trying to grasp their motivations?…
A Dose of Humor – Housewife Royalty
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…
Wistful With A Dash Of Computer Problems
By Beck My computer is DYING – I can’t presume that I’ll have more than a few seconds on it before it suddenly flutters off, which makes writing on it more exciting than usual. So while I’m practising my karate kicking on my computer, please enjoy this post from two summers ago. From some of…
Family Camp 101
By Kelly “Mom, I’m done eating. Can I go play now?” I scanned the plate across the table and the excited seven-year-old next to it. “Sure honey,” I acquiesced. “Have fun.” And with that, my daughter was out the door, on her way to fish. Or maybe swim. Or possibly make some sand art. Or…
The Empty Seat
By Veronica I write this from one of our city’s most beautiful parks. Families pass me on bicycles shaped like Model Ts. Some of these bicycles seat six, the perfect number for our family. They remind me of the foot-powered cars in The Flinstones, and I have always wanted to be one of these families,…
Twice Upon A Potty
By DeeDee It is finished. The potty training, that is. I know, last week I said that I was giving up. Throwing in the toilet paper. Tossing out the baby with the bowl. And it felt good. The giving up. I placed the Pampers back in the changing table cabinet, while whistling a happy tune….