“Does my butt look fat in these jeans?” She asks as she looks at herself in the mirrored closet doors. She turns her body to see as much of her backside as she can and is faced with an uneasy feeling of dread. She’s proud of the fact that she can fit into these boot-cut, [...]
Every morning it is the same old routine around here. I get up way earlier than I’d really like to, make the excruciating decision between getting my caffeine fix from half a pot of coffee or go the quicker route of grabbing an icy cold Diet Coke from the fridge, and get on with the [...]
“Mom, mom, I really want a cell phone!”
”But you don’t even talk on the regular phone, why do you need a cell phone?”
”I just do . . . everyone has a cell phone.”
”Well, we’re not everyone.”
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve had this conversation with my 11 year-old son, well, you know [...]
Raise your hands if you, like me, are completely befuddled by allowances?
Way back when my kids started doing regular chores (let’s say, around the ages of 5 and 6 for the boys), I figured it was high time to offer them up some kind of incentive for their help around the house. Even though their [...]
When I first heard of the bikini baristas a while ago I thought, yeah - this will blow over like yesterday’s news, thinking that it was, quite possibly just a slow news day around The Sound.
Then Stephanie wrote about it here and I thought again, okay, obviously this is not going away - but it [...]
Parents of the Great Pacific Northwest, brace yourselves. It looks as if all three of our local news weathermen are predicting a sunny weekend in our area! Now, after you have recovered from hearing that news (doesn’t it seem like we’ve been waiting an awfully long time for summer to get here?), you may be [...]
After a highly technical process of elimination (I had my 9-year-old draw a number from a bowl), the winner of the Camp Pack from Mabel’s Labels has been chosen.
Congrats to Shannon! YOU are our lucky winner, and it sounds like you’ll be getting these in just the nick of time!
Here is Shannon’s winning comment:
“With my [...]
We all know by now, hopefully, that having kids means having stuff. It doesn’t seem to matter if you have one or eight kids, little by little their stuff will creep into your life, your kitchen, your wine glass . . .
Come on, am I the only one who has ever found a Polly Pocket [...]
When I found myself pregnant with our second child (our first are 18 months apart), I knew I felt different.
Having only been pregnant once before, I just thought all that pressure was normal. I thought that was the price you had to pay for having babies so close in age. I thought my poor old [...]
Playdate. Just saying the word outloud makes me want to hide under the sheets and never come out. That isn’t to say that I do not see the benefit of providing regular and stimulating activities for very young children involving their peers, but it is just that sometimes, I get a little “playdated out.”
When my [...]