Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Friendship, Health, Illness, Preventative medicine on Mar 3rd, 2010
I almost hate saying it, but I am surprised I am not hacking up a lung. Usually when I go away — and definitely after spending an afternoon in a kids’ ER — I get a cold. It’s been 48 hours now, and I am sniffle-free, but we’ll see what the week brings. I thought [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship on Feb 23rd, 2010
I used to be a phone person. The type of friend who would spend hours chatting about everything and nothing. Conversations could go on for hours, and often did. Then something happened. I got used to speaking to friends via email. I could send out messages in between doing other things and wait for the [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship, Play on Jan 2nd, 2010
It’s January 2. I can’t believe how fast these past two weeks have flown. Heck, I can’t believe how fast the last decade went by. On Thursday, I was watching trending topics on Twitter when I came across #tenyearsago. If you’re not on Twitter, I will explain. (And if you are, you should be following [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship, Play on Nov 30th, 2009
On Saturday my husband and I took our family to the Long Island Children’s Museum to see The Bari Koral Family Band. We knew of the band because — two years ago — we purchased tickets to a family music concert series at the museum. As part of that series we received a CD that [...]
Posted in Food, Friendship, Siblings on Nov 23rd, 2009
I’ve got two siblings. A brother who is married but never had kids, and a sister who has an older teen and a little boy who is just about my big girl’s age. My brother lives the out east. My sister is somewhere in the middle. My mom’s house is in the middle, too. Until [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship, Play on Nov 18th, 2009
This is my 42nd blog post. (I had planned on writing about this topic as my 40th post, but I misread the WordPress dashboard. Sigh.) Those who have followed my musings from the beginning have read about my klutzy mistakes, my abusive ex, my friend issues. I’ve shared stories about my urinary incontinence, how I [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Favorite Things Friday, Friendship on Nov 13th, 2009
Friends. They can be so important to our well-being, keeping us sane, healthy, and happy, and changing our lives for better or for worse. I thought I’d shake Favorite Things Friday up yet again, so — although I still selected several found-on-the-Web favorites for inclusion in this week’s list — I’m dedicating the first few [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Friendship, Shopping on Nov 11th, 2009
I got a press release from the American Family Council yesterday. It called for a boycott of all Gap-owned stores because The Gap refuses to use the word “Christmas” in its holiday advertising including in-store displays. The boycott is running from November 1 through Christmas day. I have a problem with this on so many [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship, School and education on Nov 7th, 2009
The phone rang yesterday evening. It was one of Big Girl’s classmates’ moms. One of the five or so I called on Election Day when my mom, my sitter, called in sick, and I was looking to do a playdate. We chatted. She apologized for not calling sooner. We talked about a bat bake sale [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship on Oct 29th, 2009
We went to a cute party on Monday night. A Junior Girl Scout troop threw a Halloween party for the Daisy and Brownie troops in the area. Katelyn wore the costume that she handpicked for herself. We’ve been reading a book series called The Fairy Chronicles. The first book was about Marigold, a flower fairy. [...]