Kevin decides he wants to take action to make more connections with other members of our school community. We cannot join the PTO because it is the one night a week he has class, and joining the PTO doesn’t actually help us get to know the parents and children involved directly in our child’s daily [...]
Mary and Joseph - Parents to emulate. A Message for Christmas
Mary and Joseph - Parents to emulate. A Message for Christmas 2000 - The
Natural Child Project
While I fear misinterpretation and bibilical arguments on this one, I find it warming and through provoking. It’s interesting, because despite Christmas being about celebrating a birth, aside from “Santa will only bring you coal if you’re bad,” I don’t [...]
Small, Medium and Large
Carter takes a break from dancing to the Nutcracker to tell me:
If you have another baby, I’ll still be the oldest. The baby will be the youngest. And Archie will be the mediumest.
So I’d like a baby brother.
He then returns to watching the Nutcracker and asks, “so if he isn’t the nutcracker anymore, and he’s [...]
Lyrics
Carter’s singing along with the Wiggles “Oh Come All Ye Faithful,” only Carter sings, “Oh come party favors, joyful and triumphant.” He is unwilling to consider alternate lyrics.
The Wiggles Save Christmas
While there are many reasons to find the Wiggles annoying, they happen to be some of my favorites. I like them as role models for my boys- men who are comfortable dressing up as flowers and singing and dancing– the music isn’t too bad, and they don’t have the inane “conflict” of a show like [...]
Saved by Santa?
Every year it comes in some form- one year I obsessed over Keikegaard, on another Carter and I attended the local UU church. Sometimes it only manifests itself through insane amounts of cinamon candy and decorated cookies. This year I think it started with the Tuba Santas after all, I did get teary listening [...]
Sweat Pants and Stilettos
Bad Mommy has always had trouble dressing appropriately, even before she was a mommy. There was the semester (or year, or two) of pajamas to class. There was the time her (then future) mother-in-law kindly offered to buy her shoes because she had traveled five hours to visit Kevin and neglected to bring any footwear.
Just [...]