Paid Family Leave?
Hey Moms! (And Dads!) Do you live in New York state? Send a letter to your Assemblyman to tell him or her to pass Paid Family Leave this year. MomsRising…
Hey Moms! (And Dads!) Do you live in New York state? Send a letter to your Assemblyman to tell him or her to pass Paid Family Leave this year. MomsRising…
Between the ages of two and three, toddlers start coming into their own enough to be concerned with their clothes. My guess is that most girls will take interest in…
We've been attending a Mommy & Me class for a few months at Tumbling Tykes. TJ has never quite gotten the hang of participating in the class, which has been…
The whole family has been sick for the past week or so. Not all at the same time, but Grandma Kitty and Grandma Debbie were out of commission all last…
Back in college, I remember one of my roommates showing me a fantastic fanfic that featured Mulder and Scully from The X-Files in the world of Margaret Atwood's excellent dystopic novel, The Handmaid's…
The only grown-up television show I get to watch while TJ is awake is All My Children. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. Sure, it gets steamy sometimes, but they…
Not really reading, but TJ was pointing at words last night. Tom was reading him his bunny book and pointing at the words as he read. Then he turned the…
There's a fascinating article in the New York Times called Taking Play Seriously. It talks about how play is "a central part of neurological growth and behavior." It's a fairly…
When I came downstairs yesterday morning, TJ was already halfway to the stairs with the Valentine's Day present he picked out for me, a stuffed unicorn. "Mommy. U-nee-corn!." Tom gave…
Last night was bad. TJ was kept me up for two and a half hours, starting around 2:00 am. As a chronic insomniac, this was only about 10 minutes or…