My “Selective Eater” Status
On my last an earlier post (yes, it took me 1.5 weeks to finish this) Annie asked, I was wondering, in what way are you a selective eater? In my understanding s...
Category: Parenting & Family
Pandemic Holiday Redux: The not happy to be here again edition
Remember how happy I was that I didn’t have to agonize over how we should spend Thanksgiving, or manage differing levels of risk aversion during a pandemi...
When what we love causes the stress
Today my son is testing for the third stripe on his blue belt. We have been working really hard at home to learn the form, and we have been going to extra class...
NaPoBloMo? (And Covid vaccines for kids)
I have been flirting with the idea of participating in NaPoBloMo. I was going to wait a week to actually say that out loud (you know what I mean), but already I...
When improvement has little to do with you
I recently re-read Brené Browm’s The Gifts of Imperfection. I came across her Sisters Strong Summer podcast episodes and decided to buy the 10th anniversa...
DIY Overnight Camp
My daughter was supposed to attend her very first overnight camp last summer – one week at a Girl Scout facility about two hours from here. She was nervou...
6th graders riding buses
My daughter will be in 6th grade next year, at a middle school less than two miles from our house. Its new start time is 9:30am (yes, this is crazy, crazy late)...
Sticker Shock
My son is starting at a new school in the fall, and we’ve been interested in their YMCA aftercare program. The registration is this coming week, so I fina...
Together
I know I previously said I wasn’t going to mention some of our summer plans, but you know what? F*ck it. If people want to judge me, and tell me how horri...
My Marriage: The Pandemic Addition
So people (at least a few!) enjoy it when I talk about my marriage. I haven’t talked about it as much lately because things are (surprisingly!) pretty goo...