Just trying to be a Good Mom, sometimes succeeding, sometimes not. But blogging about it anyway.
From the monthly archives:
When did we start needing to make everything “exciting” so that kids will tolerate it? Why do we have to have hair salons with chairs shaped like ponies and motorcycles? Why does every child sized portion at a restaurant have to come with a toy or a scoop of ice cream? Why do vitamins have [...]
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Geetle started school on Monday. She was very excited. She picked out a special outfit and left her shoes by the door. We packed her backpack and hung it on the door knob. She was very in to the whole first day experience, even though its not her real first day of preschool, she has [...]
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Here is a cheap and fun art project that kids love. Colored Rice. You will need: plain white rice rubbing alcohol food coloring empty glass jars Pour the white rice into a bowl (not your best tupperware please). Pour rubbing alcohol over rice, enough [...]
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Have you ever met a kid who didn’t love band-aids? Geetle loves a good boo-boo because it earns her a shiny band-aid. She loves them all….the odd purple ones we got in some first aid kit, the Blues Clues ones, even the plain brown ones. When she gets “hurt” she starts lobbying for a band-aid, bringing [...]
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I received my Kolcraft Contours Options 4 wheeler Stroller the other day and was all set to order my Lascal BuggyBoard. I had it bookmarked on some website and I thought I was ready to go. Should be compatible with my new stroller, and holds 66lbs, per the website. But then I saw that this [...]
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Lately, both kids have been singing a lot. Pookie always did; its how his echolalia comes out. But Geetle seems to have joined the fun now too. And honestly, BAGD and I do not mind at all. Echolalia is tough to tolerate sometimes, but its alot easier when its a good rockin’ song. Current favorite [...]
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Do you see this girl? Although she might not appear to be the “serious-type,” she is. Lately, she has been working quite diligently on a few things she considers to be character flaws. Notably, she mispronounces certain words, and it bothers her. Lately, she has been keeping a mental list of these words and practices [...]
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I am firmly against this fund-raising technique. When firemen do it, they call it “Fill the Boot” but other organizations do it too. Basically, by my definition, its whenever people stand in the middle of the traffic lanes at intersections and take up donations or sell candy, poppies, etc. They literally stand on the yellow [...]
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When we named our kids, we went for classic names, but not those that are commonly heard. We looked at ones like Caroline, Josephine, Claire, Theodore, Abraham, etc. I can’t tell you what we picked, in case my kids want a career in politics, I can’t have some reporter digging up stories about how they [...]
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This is what my mom taught the kids to do in our kiddie pool. They stand on the end of the slide and jump as high and as far out as they can. Is [...]
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