Love is in the air. Pink trees are in bloom. Love-struck squirrels are chasing each other through the tree tops. And tomorrow is Valentime’s Day. That’s what Nate still calls it. He also calls it a Pubic’s Cube (Rubik’s Cube), a dong (gong), and his “nibbles” (nipples), but who’s keeping track?…
As I was contemplating the No It All Gift Guide of 2015, I briefly flashed back to a day early on in Jacob’s first year of kindergarten. He came home and, without warning, declared, “No. More. Sandwiches.” I averted my gaze, curtsied and replied, “May I fetch your Lordship something more…
Nate’s first school best friends were Lucas and Logan. Make that: Loo-kas and Logan. They palled around together for several years at Saint Lizzie’s. Then Bennett came along. Nate spends so much time with Bennett that I’ve caught him, on more than one occasion, absentmindedly referring to me as Bennett……
Screen time— it’s a modern day parenting fixation. How to strike that perfect balance between not raising miniature zombie couch potatoes and utter survival? Research shows the magical number is two… as in no more than two hours a day. Which at our house generally translates into two shows. Shows are…
There are certain pictures of both Jake and Nate that just melt my heart… a phrase that seems particularly overused in the female social media sphere. I’ve never seen a guy I know post a comment like, “Oh, my heart melts.” I bet Jerry Seinfeld could do miraculous things with that little…
Back when Jake had just turned three and Nate was semi-walking/crawling/eating anything he could get his fat little fists on, I remember a specific morning at Santana Row. We were sitting on a bench as the boys explored and climbed and fortunately, it was quite early, so they weren’t cutting-off…
In a previous post I’ve mentioned the phenomenon of SportsCenter— a short ESPN TV show that allows you to catch-up on the latest sports highlights without having to binge watch athletic events all weekend and thus protecting your ability to “hang.” Apparently it airs up to twelve times per day. In…
Yesterday I caught-up on some long overdue clothes management. Nate’s drawers have been overflowing with shirts that “aren’t cool.” While Jake has almost nothing to wear except school uniforms and “pocket shirts.” Pocket shirts also fall squarely in the crosshairs of the “not cool” target. I would describe them as high…
Halloween in December? It’s this blog’s aspiration to make you feel two months younger… Six years ago, we moved into our neighborhood in October. And lucky for us, our thoughtful neighbors, Kohlee and Gayle, stopped by and warned us. I think their exact words were, “Hi. Has anyone warned you…
Last year I came up with the brilliant idea of creating my own gift guide because November and December are such slow, boring months that I’m always tooling around wondering what to do with all of this free time?… This is the time of year when I clearly like to…