By Megan CHAOS, people! I live in BEDLAM these days! Everywhere I look, and more painfully, every where I step, lie Peabody’s Matchbox cars. And Bean’s Barbies and Lincoln Logs and colorful rubber pads from Hullabaloo and much of the contents of my lower kitchen cabinets and drawers. Al and I dutifully police up all…
Love
By Sarah Fader Okay relax. This is not going to be a sappy post about how we should all hold hands and love each other. Are you relieved? Fabulous. I had a nightmare. It ended with me waking up and thinking: “I love Ari MORE than I love Wil.” My heart was racing, my whole…
Breastfeeding 101
By Kelly I was in the zone this morning. Reading blogs and perusing my local newspaper online, I happened to look down at my four-month-old baby, happily nursing himself to sleep for his morning nap. And I got such a big burst of joy, I thought my heart would explode. I love breastfeeding. I love…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
By Michael Both of my girls showed respect for my feelings recently, without fanfare and without making a big deal about it. And that makes it a big deal, of course. Susan showed me respect by leaving the house. Yeah, that doesn’t sound quite like a good thing, but….. On Rosh Hashanah, I don’t turn…
10 Tips for A Smooth, Successful Overnight Getaway for Mom and Dad
By Megan Al and I went away for a night this weekend. The kids stayed home with our beloved babysitter, Lara. This was the first time Peabody’d ever gone to bed and awakened without at least one of us at home, and I’m not gonna lie to y’all, I wasn’t so sure it’d go well….
Let’s talk (good) books for the under-5 set
By Sarah Bessey Last night, when I did my final rounds to check on the tinies before going to bed, I discovered that my four year old daughter was sleeping with her books. Literally. There were two under her pillow, three in the bed and her entire Beatrix Potter collection was displayed throughout the room…
The Top Ten Reasons Why Staying Home is Hard
By Sarah Fader There is no doubt that holding a full time job is hard work. However, it is just as hard (if not harder) to stay home with your child. Here are my top ten reasons why staying home is hard. 10. Your “boss” refuses to let you take a sick day, ever. 9….
Better to Give…
By Michael Stephanie was packing up a box for Big Susan. Not Big Susan, her sister. That was just plain old Susan. Big Susan was the woman who came to clean the house every couple of weeks, at about the time the pile of dishes was scraping paint off the ceiling and the dust bunnies…
I’ll eat, pray, love right here
With apologies and respect to Elizabeth Gilbert…. I am not likely to take a year off from my life. I am not likely to get on a plane, passport in hand, to fly solo into Italy and India and Indonesia, searching for my significance and wholeness. Most of the western world is aware of Elizabeth…
Summer’s End
By Beck I am cooking again after a practically summer-long sabbatical – my husband barbecued a lot and I don’t know what else we did, but I’m fairly certain that I did pretty much no cooking between June and this past week. It was too hot and I was too depressed and so my kitchen…