PregnancyFamilyEducation Blogs
October 26, 2009
Lying low
We had all kinds of busy and exciting things planned for the weekend: there was the vegetarian potluck on Saturday, and pumpkin carving, and an outing with friends, and we'd talked about a hike in the woods on Sunday, to celebrate the return of crisp, fall weather. But on Saturday morning, in the wee hours of the morning, T. woke me up by crawling into bed next to me and uttering the ominous words, "I don't feel very good." Then she settled her hot little body around mine and I lay awake, feeling an almost audible toll of some warning bell somewhere: fever, oh no! [more]
October 19, 2009
Salvaged
This weekend my mother-in-law visited and brought with her several tattered cardboard boxes filled with all sorts of odds and ends from my husband's childhood years--the missing years, as we have called them, because while a quick trip upstairs to my parents' attic will open up a time capsule to my childhood, Scott thought for a long, long time that all those boxes were lost--thrown out by a renter who had once used their family's garage and taken it upon himself to do some housecleaning. [more]
- Tags: Parenting, Marriage, Growing Up Is Hard to Do, Family, Children
October 12, 2009
Going Colonial (with kids)
There are those family trips that tax you, so that you just can't wait to get home and settle back into ordinary life; then there are those magical trips where everything goes so wonderfully, where you find yourself feeling like a kid again, and in an out-of-body-type experience you watch your own children having the time of their lives and you think to yourself, they're going to remember this--because you remember having vacations like that when [more]
- Tags: Travel with Children, Parenting, Family Travel, Family, Children
October 6, 2009
Family-friendly?
If you are a working parent, is your company family-friendly? Take a minute to think about what you think family-friendly really means--in your ideal world (we're not talking reality, here). You can make a list, as I make my students often do in class, whenever I want to challenge them to think about a topic. Some things I would put on my list would be:
1. Good affordable health care benefits for families (including dental and vision)
2. Flexible work time
3. Extended leave for pregnancy/illness
4. Ability to bring children to work on school breaks
2. Flexible work time
3. Extended leave for pregnancy/illness
4. Ability to bring children to work on school breaks
October 5, 2009
10 ways you can tell you're a parent (even at a rock concert)
1. You feel smug because your cool low-slung Levis with the hole in one knee still fit and your daughter looks at you and says, "Oh no, Mama! You need to sew that hole!"
2. The only binoculars you can find to take to the concert are your nine-year old son's night vision ones.
3. You bring them anyway.
4. You empty your pockets for security at the concert entrance and find: a kleenex, chapstick, one acorn, and a rock shaped like a light saber.
5. The only chapstick you could find to grab out of the car before the concert was your daughter's cherry-berry lipsmackers. [more]
October 2, 2009
Jedi and Bono
We have exciting things afoot for the weekend! We'll kick things off Friday with the much anticipated (well, by one of us, at least) premiere of a new season of Star Wars: Clone Wars. L.'s been looking forward to this for weeks and weeks, and I'm not sure what he's most thrilled about: the new season, or the fact that he gets to watch a full hour of television on Friday night (our kids don't watch television past 6:00 pm, unless something really unusual is happening around here). [more]
September 28, 2009
Pure indulgence
This past weekend was the perfect weekend in so many ways--filled with mundane yet soul-pleasing things: lots of playground time on Saturday with a neighborhood friend, then a trip to Toys R Us so L. could take all his hard saved money and purchase this coveted item, pancakes on Sunday, a walk in the park, with soggy fall leaves underfoot.
September 21, 2009
Discharged
If you look to the right of this column, at the sidebar where my links are housed, you'll see one there for CAPPS, an extensive and valuable resource for anyone dealing with craniosynostosis and also plagiocephaly. Ironically, I didn't use the resource much until after my own daughter had undergone surgery to correct her metopic craniosynostosis. [more]
September 18, 2009
Spiral bound
In anticipation of the weekend, and since I wrote about kitchen legacies, and food memories this week, I decided to organize my cookbook collection. I was also prompted to do this because our new kitten Annie, who has definitely found her mojo now that she's been on antibiotics and her cold has cleared up, has decided her favorite resting spot while we're out of the house during the day is right on top of my cookbooks. [more]
- Tags: Greece, Food for Thought, Family, Cooking
