We’ll be out and about ridding neighbors of any pesky chocolate that they may have tonight, so, true to form, it just started raining. Was up til, oh…4am last night, baking cupcakes and sewing a mask for Robin, the boy wonder. Mimi seems to forget every year that lipstick looks awesome as blush, and somehow [...]
The sentence was actually “I got the kids a present, but I’m afraid you’re going to be mad.” Tom was on his way home from work, and I could not even guess what it could be. Another VW? Another trapped bird from work (close!)? A dune buggy? It could have easily been any of the [...]
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My husband does all the techy stuff in our family, because after about 5 minutes of tech jargon my eyes glaze over or I start swearing like a tipsy sailor. Since I’m sick as a dog right now, he’s written a snappy little piece about how he built our kids a computer they’re tickled pink [...]
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This contest has ended, thank you to everyone who entered! Congrats to Brooke! Some of you may have seen the huge blog response to the books Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten, and Let’s Get Ready for First Grade at the start of the school year. I reviewed the books here. You can tell that I [...]
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If there’s a resource I use more as mother of 2 young kids, I don’t know what it is. Probably not even my health care training. I came upon FamilyFun magazine, and their website when my daughter was tiny, and now rely on it for inspiration for holidays, birthdays, rainy days, just-wanna-get-our-hands-in-some-glue days (best use [...]
