Category Archives: Parenting

Sporty Sleep

All the talk on Facebook yesterday was about football.  As a person raised in a sports-free household, I’m a little at a loss to decode all these all-caps shouts about this and that team and fumbling jumbling tacky helmet tomfoolery.  Keep in mind that my parents once gamely accepted an invitation to a Superbowl party …

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Namaste, Nappers. Namaste.

Something is missing.  And it’s not the steam vac we’ll have to employ (once again) on this couch. Where are the children? Looks like William is applying himself, once again, to his yoga practice.  I see a block.  I see…uh…some kind of blankie prop.  And…is there a disc in yoga?  Methinks not.  This one is …

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Mocking Mom

Before I had children, I just knew they’d have perfect manners.  Now I see the mockery they have made of my parenting dreams.  No food on the floor? Laughable. Pick up your toys? Comical. No shoes on the couch? And then there’s his brother, who only sleeps on floors and ottomans…where your feet are SUPPOSED …

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Guest Napper #33 – S’more Snore

As we exhausted parents drag ourselves across the Labor Day finish line, let us not forget those special summer memories we’ve created for our children!  For example, is there a more wholesome family pursuit than a camping trip? Avery’s family endeavored to teach her about the great outdoors this season, but it appears that they …

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