Rainy Friday round-up
Like much of the East Coast, we have gotten drenched this week. I've been hoping that the counselors at my 9-year-old's camp are not experiencing …Read More
Tag Archives: Parenting
Celebratory meals, care packages, hodge podge
Today’s blog post is just a hodge podge…Over the weekend my husband and I took our two older boys out for their celebratory dinners (for …Read More
Hello August!
Last month I wrote about often calling June the “Friday night” of summer. I guess that makes July the Saturday of summer, and August the …Read More
Pool time/screen time
Like most modern children, my kids are into their screens. I've tried setting hour limits in the past, but it just becomes another source of …Read More
Weekend: Shifting numbers of kids, solo swims…
We briefly had four kids at home, but now it's back down to three. The 17-year-old came home late Friday night. He likes his room! …Read More
Teen room organization/decorating
In our old house, my two older boys had been crammed together in a fairly small room. In our new house, they can each have …Read More
Best of Both Worlds podcast: Rest and trading off
There's a certain narrative out there that working mothers of small kids have zero downtime. From a time diary perspective this is not true. However, …Read More
Weekend adventures: Olivia, and seeing someone get shot out of a cannon…
Maybe one of these days we'll get a slow news weekend... In the meantime, this was a good summer weekend in my household (and my 12-year-old …Read More
Midsummer check-in
I got a new phone in early June. Due to a complicated migration of my data, none of my apps automatically transferred. I decided to …Read More
Well, that was a long weekend…plus tiger lily sonnet
In my umpteen years of blogging, I think I've written a post about how "long weekends with small children are not relaxing" many times. The …Read More