It’s a rainy day here…again. After coloring, playing “doggie” (during which my children beg me for a real puppy again and again), making banana muffins AND orange jello, both kids begged me to play hide and seek with them.
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Hide and Seek |
Read the full article!| Posted in Family Life, K-5, Motherhood / Parenthood, Preschoolers | 1 Comment » | Monday, September 6th, 2010 | |
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U is for Underwear |
One of our favorite book series is the Frances series by Russell Hoban. Frances is a young badger, and her escapades with bedtime battles, friend troubles, picky eating, new babies in the house, and birthday jealousies are accompanied by Frances’s lovely little made-up songs.
| Posted in Books, Family Life, K-5 | No Comments » | Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 | |
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What did you get for YOUR birthday? |
Yesterday was my birthday, along with my best friend from growing up, Sara, Madonna, Kathie Lee AND Frank Gifford, and Timothy Hutton. We Leos can never be indifferent about our birthdays, as we love to show off, be the center of attention, and greet everyone we meet with an “it’s my birthday” smile.
My day was no less auspicious than let’s say, my 21st birthday, except that yesterday I realized that I am just as close to age 50 as to age 20. Oh, and there were no jagermeister shots bought for me by my frat boy boyfriend and his cronies.
| Posted in Family Life, Motherhood / Parenthood, Relationships | 1 Comment » | Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 | |
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A Missed Opportunity for Parenting 101 |
Which is worse, do tell me?
| Posted in Family Life, Preschoolers | No Comments » | Sunday, August 15th, 2010 | |
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Disappointment |
My four year-old niece met me halfway down the stairs, wearing a purple and green Tinkebell nightgown and a frown.
“What’s wrong, sweetie?” I asked her, expecting to hear that one of my children had done something wrong.
“Auntie Mel,” she told me sadly, “I’m just trying to fly and I can’t and I really want to.
| Posted in Family Life, Preschoolers | 1 Comment » | Sunday, August 8th, 2010 | |
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Hard Questions |
Yesterday we went to Babies R Us to buy a baby gift for my friend, Brittany, who’s adopting a baby next month. Annabel, my five year-old, helped me to choose a bouncy seat and a set of newborn onesies in shades of brown and pink. While at the check-out, Annabel looked at me and scrunched up her mouth. “When’s Brittany having her baby?”
| Posted in Babies, Family Life, K-5, Preschoolers | 2 Comments » | Friday, August 6th, 2010 | |
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Stockholm Syndrome |
Dear Nona and Papa,
We’re holding your daughter hostage. Here is our list of demands:
| Posted in Family Life, Feeding / Nutrition, Motherhood / Parenthood, Toddlers | 4 Comments » | Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 | |
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“You Happy Now?”: Teaching My Toddler About Unconditional Love |
Yesterday my two-year-old Lucy, once again, lunged to hug her five-week-old brother while he was in his moving swing. Knowing she was breaking a rule (a lot of new rules have been implemented since the birth of baby Mark), she looked at me while in motion. Sensing my silent disapproval of what she was about to do, she stopped, then ran toward me asking, “You happy now?”
Along with wanting to drink water from a bottle and for me to periodically pat her bottom while she pretends to be a baby, this you-happy-now question has emerged as one of Lucy’s new behaviors since her brother’s birth.
| Posted in Family Life, Motherhood / Parenthood, Toddlers | 1 Comment » | Saturday, July 31st, 2010 | |
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Tucked Up in Bed |
I’m at my parents’ house right now, tucked up with my computer in my old room in my old bed. Through the window, I can hear crickets carrying on in the night and the faint rumble of a train. It’s quiet in the house, but through my bedroom wall I can hear the rustling of my daughter turning over in bed and the chesty coughs of my son as he struggles with a summer cold.
| Posted in Family Life, Motherhood / Parenthood | 1 Comment » | Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 | |
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Mama Grizzly vs Mama Sea Turtle |
Lately I find myself careening madly between being a mama sea turtle and a mama grizzly bear. While biologist would, no doubt, avoid placing reptilian motherhood on the same scale as mammalian, I can’t help but see my own ability, or inability, to protect my young in these two creatures.
| Posted in Family Life, Feeding / Nutrition, Health, Motherhood / Parenthood, Preschoolers, Relationships, Toddlers | 2 Comments » | Friday, July 16th, 2010 | |
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