1 Mother 2 Another

Every year Christmas seems to get here sooner, and my lists seem to get longer: my to-do list, my shopping list, my list of gift recipients,...

Wednesday was our first day back into our complete “normal” routine – Maddie didn’t have school Monday, so Wednesday marked her return to sc...

As part of a massive campaign to get Maddie excited about – heck, just willing to go to – school, I sent her over to her friend Elise’s hous...

I’m back, but I’m not back, if you know what I mean. I just had about the best five days of my life, eating my way through every single ethn...

Maddie and Cora went to an ice-skating birthday party on Sunday. This was stressful to me on a couple fronts: first, there was the obvious w...

I feel it’s only fair to take a moment and give you my point of view on the whole Check-Up Time Elmo thing, since Maddie’s entry (see previo...

My daughter Maddie is a bit of a pack rat. She can have a hard time letting go of things – well, ANYTHING, really, and will easily attach se...

A good friend of mine came over last night to hang out, and at one point she chased Cora up the stairs. When she came back down she was laug...

I’ve finally had a chance to look at the results from my most recent poll – What was baby’s first word? And it’s good to know I’m not the on...

In an extravagant fit of sheer awesomeness, my mother just gave me a Vita-Mix blender as an early Mother’s Day gift. I’ve been eyeing one fo...