One way to reclaim leisure time
My kids have never been great sleepers. They don’t seem to need as much sleep as many kids. The older two gave up their naps …Read More
Category Archives: Parenting & Family
Steppin’ out with my baby
My 7-year-old got a Fitbit Zip for his birthday. He lost it, but before he did, I decided to buy one that I’ve been using. …Read More
On not watching the clock
It happened more than once on the Mosaic logs. A woman had negotiated a schedule to leave work quite early. She’d go pick up her …Read More
My mom (gratuitously cute kid stuff)
So the 7-year-old had to draw and write about someone he admires for homework today. Without my prompting this, he decided that he wanted to …Read More
Parenting for introverts
In my post on nurturing friendships, I started to see a theme in the comments: a lot of blog readers call themselves introverts. I suppose …Read More
Can we be friends?
I went out for a “mom’s night” dinner this week, and observed this: we talked about the kids a lot. That’s to be expected, except …Read More
How do I start a business when I’ve got a bundle of kids around here?
In the post earlier this week on The Nesting Place, a few comments raised the question of how to start a business when you don’t …Read More
What does it mean to stay home?
The Pew Research Center came out with a report a few weeks ago on stay at home moms in America. The headline out of the …Read More
A love letter to Amazon Prime
When I was at the Makers Conference a few weeks ago, Wendy Clark, SVP of Coca-Cola's "Global Sparkling Brand Center," talked about how she managed …Read More
Snow days, time management, and chess
When our school district calls a snow day, the phone no longer rings at 5:30 a.m. Apparently they got a lot of complaints about the …Read More