Posted in Family, Kids, Life, MommyHood, Moms, Motherhood, Parenting, Toddlers on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Remember how it was the first day you started a new job? How out of sync with everyone else in your department you were? You needed to learn the processes of how things were done, the hierarchies, the locations of all the conference rooms and, most importantly, where the coffee pot was located.
Now, [...]
Posted in Family, Kids, Magazines, Media, MommyHood, Moms, Parenting, Toddlers on January 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m currently experiencing a serious hate of parenting magazines.
Okay, well…..maybe hate is too harsh a word….
A dislike of the pictures of perfect families with clean faces and hands?
A disfavor of how unrealistic it is to expect that my family would enjoy the recipes they list especially when at least three out of the six ingredients [...]
Posted in Family, Kids, Life, MommyHood, Motherhood, Parenting, Toddlers on January 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Anyone who’s been in close contact for, say, more than two minutes, with a two year old knows just how challenging a toddler can be. They’re exercising their limits. And yours. They like to push all the buttons. And yours. They like to see how far they can take things, [...]
Posted in Culture, Family, Parenting, Shopping, Thanksgiving on November 24, 2007 | 11 Comments »
People had been waiting to check out for over 90 minutes., originally uploaded by Malingering.
There’s no better illustration of the culture of too much in this country than the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
First, there’s too much travel. Too many lineups, too much need to travel from one of the country to the other for [...]
Posted in Autism, Family, Kids, Life, MommyHood, Moms, Motherhood, Parenting, Toddlers on September 13, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Every day in the United States, 67 children are diagnosed as being autistic, originally uploaded by wskrz.
Meet Alex. One of those 67.
Results came in today from the assessment and were pretty much what we expected them to be. Some things will stay the same, some things will change. Alex will be getting more [...]
