Karate, Boy Scouts, and Soccer, Oh My!
We are so busy with different things right now that I’m not keeping up too well with blogs and other “extra-curricular” activities. But we are all happy and having fun, so I guess it’s a good trade-off. Karate. Last Friday night, the children and I passed our karate rank tests, and advanced from white belt […]
What Is WRONG With Parents?
Another infant has died because she was left in a car. In 100-degree weather. Most tragic is that many of these people “forgot” that their child was in the car. When the temp outside is 100, the temp inside of a car can exceed 150 degrees in less than 15 minutes. Most kids who die […]
Baby Borrowers
Anyone else watching this “reality” show? I’m oddly fascinated by it. The premise is that the show takes some older teens who are in relationships and takes them through the insanity that is parenting in a sort of telescoped fashion. They arrived at their “home,” and got settled in a little. Then they got the […]
Do Other Dads Do This?
My darling daddy e-mailed me yesterday to make a date with me. He wants to take me to lunch today, because it’s my birthday. I wonder if other dads know how important it is to their daughters to spend time with their dads. I treasure the special lunches that Daddy has taken me to over […]
“Mommy Porn” — What Do You Think?
And no, it’s not what you think! I often read Penelope Trunk’s blog “The Brazen Careerist,” because she’s very up-front about the fact that she’s not perfect, work-life balance is not possible, and some days just stink. Sometimes her ideas for coping are outrageous; some days they actually make sense. I was VERY touched by […]
Migraines and Kids
My younger son had a migraine yesterday. Poor tyke. He’s only nine. And he was in so much pain that he was struggling to keep back the tears. We didn’t go trick-or-treating, because I’m still not feeling at the top of my form, and I wasn’t up to trekking up and down our block in […]
Motherhood = Worry
My baby boy is sick. I’m worried that it’s something serious. He started complaining of a sore throat on Tuesday, and spent the whole day on the couch, sleeping off and on. That evening, he said his stomach hurt, and he vomited once and had several bouts of nausea that threatened, but never developed into […]
Scarlet Fever!
Thank goodness those two words do not have to strike fear into the hearts of parents anymore. Thank God for Alexander Fleming and his discovery of penicillin. Before the widespread use of penicillin, scarlet fever was a deadly scourge. Remember Laura Ingalls Wilder’s sister Mary, who was rendered blind? Or Beth March in Little Women, […]
Missing the Kids Today
After being with them 24/7 for nearly 8 days, I’m missing my boys today. I didn’t have time to miss them yesterday … I was too busy walking and then dying. But today. The house is too quiet, except when it creaks. Their beds are too neat. The kitchen is too tidy without their multitudinous […]