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…
Sunshine
By Beck It’s been an unusually cold couple of weeks here, and even though intellectually I know that my kids will be out of school in mere days (ten school days left, I think), emotionally I still think that it’s months and months away. Technically, the kids will still be in school for a few…
An A+ Family
By Kelly I tried not to eavesdrop, but it was hard not to listen. “Some families are just out of control,” said one of the voices. “I mean, seriously.” I glanced sideways at the table next to ours. We were sitting in the dining room of a nice hotel, enjoying the final moments of the…
The Well-Worn Heart
By Veronica This post was originally published in May 2007 on Veronica’s personal blog, Toddled Dredge. Veronica now has four children, the youngest of whom will be weaned soon. “The Well-Worn Path” remains just as true now as it was then. “We are in love with him already, ” a friend told me, when she…
The Wonders of the Aging Body, According to a Four Year Old
By Megan I’ve been working on coming to friendly terms with my post-second-baby, forty-one year old body lately, with its new SillyPutty-like stretches and sags, its dedication to growing hair where I don’t want it and shedding hair where I do, and its obsession with simultaneously producing pimples and wrinkles so fast I can almost…
Clues
By DeeDee “BE QUIET, THE BABY IS SLEEPING!” My girls stop their game of tug-o-war over a Barbie accessory and stare at me blankly. They’re right. There is no baby in the house. Oh sure, there’s a 45 pound 3 year old that still occupies a crib down the hall. But, he has the ability…
A Dose of Humor – Mom Jeans and the Dreaded “Long Butt”.
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…
Gruff
By Beck I just got back from watching a classroom performance of The Three Billy Goats Gruff – my son was a very appropriately gruff-voiced troll, crouched underneath a set of classroom play stairs. The three little goats were three little girls, title of the play to the contrary, and they traipsed over the stairs…
The Lilacs
By Kelly The lilacs are blooming. Nothing says early summer to me quite like a bush rich with amethyst blossoms. They are ubiquitous right now, strewn willy-nilly around the neighborhood, equally at home on a freeway overpass as they are in the front yard of a much-loved cottage. The air is perfumed with their innocent…
Mother in a Swimsuit
By Veronica I wore a swimsuit in public today and the sky did not fall. This frumpy overweight mom wore a swimsuit in public, and no one pointed and jeered. No one turned away in disgust. Dogs did not let out howls as I walked by, and potted plants did not wilt. Not a single…