Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on Jul 21st, 2009
My friend and colleague, Meagan Francis, who also happens to be the founder of Larger Families, a blog on which I’m a contributor, had a great essay on Babble.com the other day. I was happy when I read it and discovered that, as in just about every area I’ve discovered so far, she and I [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on May 11th, 2009
Most of my kids are bleary-eyed and grumpy in the morning and on school mornings, I almost always have to drag the boys out of their beds. It’s not a very pleasant job, especially when my natural state in the morning is not exactly conducive to rising with the sun either. By the time school [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day on Apr 13th, 2009
Now that summer vacation is looming, I’m being faced with the prospect of making three meals a day for four children, one of whom is extremely picky. It stresses me out just thinking about it. I’m not a cook at the best of times, but trying to come up with creative, easy, fast meals that [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day on Feb 17th, 2009
They come in all forms; sweet, evil, intrusive, uninvolved, bossy. Or, if you’re really unlucky, a combination of all these. Whatever your relationship with your mother-in-law, it’s bound to have its stresses. How do I know this? Because I have one of the nicest people, if not the nicest, in the universe for a mother-in-law. [...]
