September 2, 2010
- Back To School
By Beck
I love this time of year - the changing leaves (well, any day now), the cooling temperatures (again, ANY day now), new pens and pencils and notebooks and bookbags and sweaters. Only one of my kids actually goes to school, but the back-to-school feeling prevails nonetheless. (…)
August 30, 2010
- Slap-happy Campers
By Megan
We took the kids camping for the first time last weekend. I'd never really camped before, so it was all new to me, too. (…)
August 20, 2010
- This is all it takes to be a hero evidently
By Sarah
We won't be taking a holiday this summer. But one Saturday, my husband, Brian, decided to take the tinies camping anyway.
In our backyard. (…)
August 17, 2010
- The Road to Degradation
By Michael
I think she was four, possibly a precocious three. She was up on the chair, playing on the touchscreen, trying to win a matching game and then a ring toss of sorts. (…)
August 16, 2010
- T.G.I.S.
By Megan
Here in the Midwest, people suck the stinkin' marrow out of summer, because winter sucks the marrow out of our souls, except souls don't have marrow, bones do, but for the purposes of my clever opening sentence we're going to just set all that aside and nod our heads in agreement, right? (…)
August 15, 2010
- One Way to Skin a Snake
by DeeDee
My husband took the kids away last Sunday so that I could tackle the garage. A daunting task, to be sure. But the thought of having the place to myself so that I could sort, organize, toss, and generally FILE ALL MY JUNK filled me with a little giddiness. (…)
August 12, 2010
- A Wolf In The Woods
By Beck
So the other day I was casually reaching for the kitchen tap and nearly grabbed A GIGANTIC WOLF SPIDER THAT WAS LURKING ON IT. (…)
August 11, 2010
- They Call Me Mommy — Most Of The Time
By Kelly
I will never forget the first time it happened.
It was around 7:00 PM on a sunny summer evening. I asked Natalie, then two years old, to call her Daddy inside for dinner. (…)
August 10, 2010
- But you can't tell mom…..
By Michael
Parents are supposed to be a team, working together, presenting a consistently united front. As we all know, that's why parent and partner have exactly the same letters. (…)
August 8, 2010
- Honoring their instincts
By Gretchen
"Mom?' my child said in a small voice, 'I don't think you should eat the pie."
I was caught by surprise and asked why. (…)
August 6, 2010
- World Breastfeeding Week: How Breastfeeding Changed Me
By Sarah
World Breastfeeding Week is on. (…)
August 4, 2010
- Civilize the Savages
By Kelly
My two-year-old was eating a bag of snack mix this morning, courtesy of her Daddy’s flight home from Chicago last night. (…)
August 3, 2010
- Chelsea Getting Married
By Michael
President Obama was on The View last week, chatting up the ladies about all sorts of earthshaking issues, when he was asked about his attendance at Chelsea Clinton's wedding. (…)
August 2, 2010
- Journeys, The Pink and The Blue
By Megan
I'll spend this week packing and training and mentally preparing to participate in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure in my adopted home city, Chicago, starting Friday. (…)
August 1, 2010
- Harvest
By Mary
This afternoon I sat in my shady corner of the deck next to our pool, and watched my kids splash into the water one by one. With only one child in the water, waves were small. But as more kids splashed and leaped their way in, the water got choppier, the waves bigger, the decibel level higher. (…)
July 30, 2010
- Calm your heart
By Sarah
For some reason, when my tinies are all wound up, I press my hand to their chest and quietly say "Calm your heart."
I don't know why I do it. (…)
July 27, 2010
- Pushing Them Away, But Always a Fan
By Michael
I was watching a hummingbird feeding its young and I wondered when the clock would run out. (…)
July 26, 2010
- Putting Down the Books
By Megan
I cleaned out and organized my desk on Saturday, unearthing, among many other long lost treasures, my dog-eared copy of Paul Weissbluth's Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. (…)
July 25, 2010
- Never the same again
By Melodee
This afternoon, my husband drove our mini-van past a beige house with a tall evergreen tree crowding the front lawn.
"You should take a picture," he said. (…)
July 23, 2010
- In which cleaning and scrubbing can wait
By Sarah
On that afternoon, I was going to be productive. (…)
