Everyone’s heard of the Tooth Fairy. Maybe even the Sugarplum Fairy, of Nutcracker fame. Our household is starting to crowd up with fairies of all sorts. But...does it have to be filled with only the good ones?
I swear I’m going to hurl rainbows if I have [...]
I am a mama of three little ones, my oldest is five and we are running into a dilemma. There seems to be a lack of cute shoes after size 12. Please would you help? You guys always have the best recommendations! -GabrielleOver the river and thru the woods,
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes and bites the nose,
As over crispy ground we go.
Sometimes, you just have to grab an extra blanket, maybe even a fishing pole, or two, hop into the car, drive [...]
Any blogging “expert” will tell you that the key to blogging “success” is to write and write often.
Based on my performance recently, I suppose I’m on the fast track to blogging failure.
It’s just that right now, I feel like I have this basket [mine's one of those [...]
COOKIE!!!
Cookie Monster is no doubt the least good-for-you part of Sesame Street but it was always my favorite. And then there’s Oscar the Grouch, who’s already been the subject of a Geek Dad post.
One of us.
Likely the Cookie Monster is the favorite of many [...]
Photo: Chris Breeze (Creative Commons-attribution)
Last week, we needed help determining which of our witnesses was involved in a bank robbery. We got it! Congratulations to Shane for having his correct answer randomly chosen from all of the correct answers we received. Shane will receive [...]
Last week I cemented my reputation as Crappy Crocker, the Domestic Not-ess of baking. It started with an email from a nice mom who (I thought) was going to bake Halloween cookies for my daughter's class. She wanted to know how she [...]
As a long-standing semi-vegetarian, I have a soft spot in my heart for the hapless turkey at this time of the year. So no one will be surprised if one of my kids shows up to Thanksgiving dinner wearing this absolutely adorable Gobble Gobble [...] 
Some of my favorite memories: Seeing Paris when I was 8. My senior year dance performance. Bungee jumping off a crane over the Hudson River. And they're all saved on video tape. 
I kinda love everything about Late July snacks. I love that they're organic and free of HFCS and all that other garbage. I love that they're charitably-minded. I love that the company is run by a mom who even sneaks pictures of her [...] As more and more people (children and adults) use text messaging as a means of communication via their cell phones, will we find that correct spelling becomes obsolete?
Many young people use numbers and letters (4 instead of for, u for you) to speed up the process so they often don’t [...]
As more and more people (children and adults) use text messaging as a means of communication via their cell phones, will we find that correct spelling becomes obsolete?
Many young people use numbers and letters (4 instead of for, u for you) to speed up the process so they often don’t [...]
NaBloPoMo #6
My six-year-old just spent the last hour sitting in a basket in the middle of the living room. My other two kids also wanted to sit in the basket, and when given the chance, likely would have stayed there all night, just to prevent their siblings from sitting in [...]
StumbleUpon, StumbleUpon, StumbleUpon. I should confess that StumbleUpon (SU) often totally baffles me. Some posts go over well, others die a very quick death and I don’t really know why. I hear from so many of you that you’ve seen no traffic from SU and that you don’t really see [...]
Because Wilder threw up at 1am, and went on to repeat the process ever 30 to 60 minutes up until noon, a book meme via Jennifer at Under the Ponderosa and Magpie Musing:
1) You are facing an epic journey. You may choose one companion, one tool and one [...]
Cross posted from our sister blog, DC Metro Moms Blog.
I grew up in a military family. My father was a career Air Force officer, as was his father. My brother joined the Army a few years after high school and served two tours in [...]
Jennifer asked: Hi Carmen, two ideas I'd like to hear about.. You've said before that your husband has other children. How do you handle being a step mom? I'm not a stepmom, but a step daughter and would be interested to hear how you work with that. And the other idea: I know [...]
This category is full of everything from getting kids ready for school to picking out those summer fun activities. So it shouldn’t surprize you that when someone emailed and asked me:
IMG: Elizabeth Ferree
My son is 3 years old and refusing use his potty chair. Any recommendations?
My first [...]
This category is full of everything from getting kids ready for school to picking out those summer fun activities. So it shouldn’t surprize you that when someone emailed and asked me:
IMG: Elizabeth Ferree
My son is 3 years old and refusing use his potty chair. Any recommendations?
My first [...]
Skila and Tatjana both asked about openness in international adoptions in regards to my Roundtable post. Specifically, should adoptive parents push for openness? Tatjana said:
This is very much the predominant point of view re searching for birth families of internationally adopted children here in NL due to *very [...]
There is direction, there is interpretation and then there is Fin.
This, my friends, is how to make a music video:
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