As a mom, there’s a lot of reading in my life. Not for pleasure, but for schoolwork, for research, for any number of things, many of which revolve around lighting that fire under my kids so that they develop a [...]
As a mom, there’s a lot of reading in my life. Not for pleasure, but for schoolwork, for research, for any number of things, many of which revolve around lighting that fire under my kids so that they develop a [...]
I’ve said before that being a stay at home parent is the closest thing to a rarefied Edwardian society as you can get in yoga pants. We have our own rhythms, behaviors, habits, and quirks when grouping up or just [...]
Okay, I’ve had three false starts to today’s blog. I’m supposed to be good with the wording, but today, the braining makes the nugget hurt. We had family in from across the country and it was a wonderful–if exhausting–month of [...]
I’ve been handling summer vacations with kids for long enough to see there’s a pattern.
June comes around and a combination of spring/summer sports and school year fatigue produces a kid that’s at once so suddenly lost without the routine, and [...]
In my house, July means the summer’s gone on long enough that boredom has set in and now the only release from the Endless Summer Fun of Youthful Ennui is Recreational Fighting. Don’t get me wrong, my kids are generally [...]
A weekend campfire is a great way to unwind with family and friends in a relaxed, natural setting. It’s also a great way to experience what it feels like to be an all-you-can-eat buffet. Fire, people, and warm humidity attract [...]
Mondays are my days where I usually blog about some aspect of parenting while working from home. Especially in a creative industry like writing, it can be incredibly hard to carve out respect for your work time, carve out worth [...]
Unless you’re getting this in feed/email form, you’ll probably notice there have been some changes around here. I’ve re-decorated the blog to be clearer, more versatile, and a little more professional. Let me know what you think in the comments!
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Everybody hates the Chore List. None more so than the one that has to make it. No matter what chore list I set up, the whining commences, followed by the labor disputes. Any attempts to point out that the effort [...]
So during this first week of Endless Summer Fun, I took the kids to the local amusement park, courtesy of Season Passes (because there’s no other way to afford going, honestly. I could probably buy a small country with family [...]