How to make an Easter basket, the lazy mom way: 1. Attend an endless string of Easter parties at school, playdates, and parks 2. Collect plastic Easter eggs filled with candy or cheap plastic trinkets 3. Come home with goodie bags full of more candy 4. When kids … [Read more...]
Vocabulary Lessons
Words I had to define for my almost 5-year-old yesterday: realistic contagious enzyme sole Who ever said parenting was easy? … [Read more...]
Good Mom
Kyle has conjunctivitis, so I took him to the doctor at 8:00 AM, hung out with him at Starbucks while we waited for the pharmacist to make up the eyedrops, and took the day off work because he can't go to school. I've been playing video games and looking for bugs with him most … [Read more...]
New House?
How fast time is flying. Today I caught myself marveling at the leaps and bounds my children have made in their language development. Kyle, at almost 5, is so articulate that he now lapses into the lazy combinations of words that you'd hear in someone from Pittsburgh: "jeet … [Read more...]