How It All Began
I’ve received quite a few questions about how we balance working and not-working in our family and why we’ve made the choices we’ve made regarding childcare and work. Many of our friends are currently...
View Article30 Days of Thanks: Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg will be so pleased: today the thing I am most thankful for is When Facebook came to my college (back in the day when it was only for college students), it took me a while to warm to the...
View ArticleToddler-in-Tow…Or Not?
This evening on Motherlode, KJ Dell’Antonia asked her readers if children ever belong at an adult party. The question was in reference to a situation where one family’s babysitter canceled, so they...
View ArticleStanding Up For Nora
This week has been full of ups and downs. I was sick, then I was better; Nora was sick, then better, and now, after an hour and a half of sobbing and her not even able to nurse, we’re concerned that...
View ArticleFilm Friday: “That”
When I was editing the videos for last week’s film, I was struck by how much Nora’s speech and communication has changed from last year. Now she talks in full sentences, knows more words than I can...
View ArticleLooking for Words of Wisdom
I’ve mentioned here and there that Nora is a shy and relatively slow to approach person, but I haven’t spent a huge amount of time talking about it aside from the post about feeling bad for not...
View ArticleShyness Update
(What we do with grocery bags.) Not long ago, I asked for some advice about Nora’s shyness and if it was normal for a child her age or excessive. I got a ton of comments, Facebook messages and...
View ArticleAlmost Three
In some parts of the country, school has already started. In less than four weeks, Nora will be headed off to preschool two mornings per week and I’ll be truly committed to homeschool preschool three...
View ArticleBuilding a Parenting Library — Recommended Reading
I mentioned awhile ago that I received a $500 grant to start our La Leche League library. I had a lot of fun thinking about the books I would recommend to local moms and what was helpful to me the...
View ArticleExhaustion and Mommy Guilt
In my 28 years, I have moved nearly 20 times. I lived in nine different houses in three different states before graduating from high school. Once I went to college, I did the traditional move every...
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