She catches your eye across the playground. She has a cute haircut and is wearing those sandals you’ve been eying. The kid she’s pushing in the swing appears to be about the same age and gender as the one you chase around on a daily basis. This woman is worth further inspection. You casually move […]
Week 19: The taming of the shrew
If you’re just joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to learn what it’s all about. Friday afternoon: I pick Eli up from school and head with the kids to Sam’s Club. I’d love to wait until tomorrow to go, but since we have only one partial roll of toilet paper […]
You’re doing potty training all wrong. Here’s why:
When it comes to potty training, the prevailing attitude seems to be ‘the earlier, the better’. I get it. Sort of. Diapers are expensive, so it would be nice to cross them permanently off the shopping list. And there are always those parents who want to turn their smug noses up at the poor schmuck […]
Week 18: The sweetest thing
If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to learn how it all began. I read a blog post a while back by a mom whose kids are a little bit older than mine. She was at the pool with them one summer day when she […]
Week 17: Heaven is for real
If this is your first time reading one of my Keeping It Real Challenge posts, please click here to find out what they’re all about. I first learned of the Sauer family in March, about a month after they discovered that their four year old son, Ben, had a cancerous brain tumor. He’d had surgery, […]
Live tweets from a three year old
The other day I started thinking about how it’s become popular to tweet about the television shows you watch. Some shows even display people’s tweets across the bottom of the screen. So that made me wonder: What would it look like if kids could tweet about the shows they watch? I decided to try it […]
To Annelise, on your second birthday
You are the perfect blend of girly girl and tomboy
Week 16: Looking back
If this is your first time joining me, please click here to find out what this is all about. Sixteen weeks! That means I’m a third of the way through the Keeping It Real Challenge. Gotta be honest, this is the longest I’ve stuck with a project in a long time. I always have good […]
To Eli, on your sixth birthday
Dear Eli, I’ve noticed something happening in the past couple of months. It started one sunny day…
I used to be so judgy
I used to be so judgy. Back before I had kids. I knew how my kids would behave because I would teach them to behave that way because really, how hard could it be? I wasn’t a parent, but I knew how to parent because I took some classes in college and I got my […]