Ouch. The Mouse is down for the count this weekend. She’s been diagnosed with RSV and a double ear-infection (which is approximately one ear away from the rare triple ear-infection). She is 8 months old on Monday and this is the first major, prescription-drug-necessary illness – so we’re...
January 26th, 2008 | Parenting Blog | Read More
It’s not totally cheesy for this entire post to be in green, is it?
Ever since it arrived in the post, the new Putumayo Kids Celtic Dreamland record has been a mainstay inside the Mouse’s CD player. This means that I have become intimately familiar with the record, as I’m Mouse’s...
January 22nd, 2008 | kid's music reviews | Read More
The next time some Republican yahoo is pontificating about how important family values are and how they will work, with the grace of God, if elected to solidify the family unit in America, think about the fact that the Family Medical Leave Act provides exactly ZERO paid time off and only 12 whole weeks...
January 22nd, 2008 | Parenting Blog | Read More
The Bear is infatuated with the word EYEBALL. She has a funny way of saying it too, more EYEBAWWWWL then eyeball. It’s hilarious. TOOTH is a distant second in the favorite word area.
20+ years ago, I remember my parochial-school-best-friend’s annoying little sister announcing “guess...
January 21st, 2008 | Parenting Blog | Read More
The Mrs. and I were lucky enough to be in the audience for the Ellis Paul show on Saturday morning at World Cafe Live in Philly. He played most of the tunes off his debut kid’s record, the impeccable effort titled “The Dragonfly Races”, sprinkled in a couple Woody Guthrie numbers,...
January 20th, 2008 | So Much Time So Little To Do | Read More
So I’m flipping through the new Parenting magazine, reading all about Mom’s and their interaction with their children (why isn’t this rag called “Raising Kids Without Dads!”) and there is a huge Ad for Muzzy, a two page spread! Yikes, that is probably a fairly expensive...
January 15th, 2008 | PRODUCT REVIEWS | Read More
You have probably seen a Cloud b product at some point, even if you don’t recall the encounter right now. They are the inventive company (with the snazzy packaging) behind the Twilight Turtle – a fantastically cute illuminated sleep aid that is available in all those cool, quirky magazines...
January 14th, 2008 | PRODUCT REVIEWS | Read More
On Friday, when I picked up the Bear and Mouse from their grandparents, my mom sent me home with a platter of frozen, breaded chicken – the thinnest you’ll ever see. She prepared it and then, like everything else in her house, it went into a deep freeze – unsure of it’s purpose...
January 13th, 2008 | Parenting Blog | Read More
