The toddler pallet is a very strange thing. An item that was once his absolute favorite food can be treated with utter contempt the next day. You just never know the way the wind will blow when it comes to toddler culinary preferences.
I just experienced this fickleness during Ryan’s morning snack. Since he had French [...]
I have Spring Fever. It hit me about about a week ago and it’s making me crazy. All I want to do is sit on a patio, eat some chips and salsa and drink a Corona with lime.
Back in my high school days, we would usually take an extended lunch (AKA ditch 4th hour) on [...]
Gaw. It feels like all that I ever do on my days off from work is laundry and trips to the grocery store. Yesterday was no different.
Following a nearly-two hour midday nap, Ryan finished his lunch and seemed in a perfect mood for me to drag him to the grocery store. So I jumped at [...]
As Easter approaches and I think about which traditions I’d like to start with my own child, it prompts me to think back on my own childhood.
When I was a kid, I both loved and dreaded Easter. Same goes for the Tooth Fairy. Why, you may ask? Because of my dad. He used to say [...]
There’s this weird phenomenon that women experience pretty much the second that they find out that they are going to become a mother. And it continues, for quite conceivably, the rest of that woman’s life. It’s called “Mama Guilt”.
Mama Guilt is essentially this overwhelming sense of guilt that makes a woman feel like [...]