Dubs and I walked up to the Farmer’s Market on Sunday.  He was an absolute angel.  And I happened to plan well.
We putzed around all morning, waiting for the eye rubbing and classic tired toddler signs to emerge.  As soon as they did I threw on my running shoes, plopped him in the jogger and [...]

I have been waiting and waiting for Dubs to get some decent teeth.  He cut his first ones at 8 months, bottom two, front and center.
And then nothing for months… and months… six of them to be exact…
I may have been anxious because I was tired of hearing “oh, only two teeth, at a year? [...]

In an attempt to showcase how well Dubs is making the transition to daycare (in-home, same place his two cousins go, and for all of a day and a half a week), his provider told me “he was smiling today, I even got a picture.”
I thought, “huh, so this means he normally doesn’t really smile?” [...]

Welcome to the July Carnival of Natural Parenting: You Are What You Eat
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have written about their struggles and successes with healthy eating. Please read to the end to find a [...]

Tonight I took him to a concert in the park.  We saw the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies.  Good, clean family fun.  Except when the show starts at 6, and you get there at 5 to scope it out and park close (in case of an emergency melt-down exit) and it happens to be the very first [...]

I am devastated over the oil spill. I truly am. I started collecting Bruno’s dog hair to send down to soak up the oil and then heard it was of no use, they weren’t using the hair that was being sent.
So I did what any heart-broken, semi-hippy, tree-loving mama would do. I [...]