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pending parenting fail

You know you are screwing up this whole parenting thing when in the same day you: Discover your almost-5-year-old hiding in the pantry scarfing Bunny Grahams like some bulimic cast member of The Hills and then carefully disposing of the evidence, flying the Flag of Fairness in your face after you refused him a snack [...]

baby watch

Draft post from April 2010 – never published: It’s happening.  The other day I was watching a girl feed her baby the same kind of organic baby food that I used to feed Em and I got a sweep of nostalgia.  Today as I looked through my list of categories over there I realized that [...]

smart cookie

Scene: Dinner. I’ve just placed a scalloped potato and ham casserole on everyone’s plates.  Although this is a relatively easy dinner, I should mention that my crappy food processor made it a bigger mess than it needed to be, and I hate to cook. Alex:  Yuck!  I don’t like this dinner!  Will you make me [...]

nuk goblin

Confession: Emily Kate still uses a pacifier at night and during nap. Yes, I’m well aware that by now I should have taken it from her but she sleeps SO DARN WELL. I love sleep.  Emmy loves sleep.  We are both cranky when we don’t get enough or when accosted too early by the perky, [...]