Independence. My preschool-age son Craig strives for it.
Actually, that’s an understatement. He yells, demands, and stamps his feet to reach the milestone daily.
He doesn’t have patience with the time it takes to grow up. Every morning he looks at his reflection in the refrigerator door, stretches his arms above his [...]
Kids keep you young? At 35 that’s hard for me to believe.
This pregnancy makes me feel old. Really, really old. Lately my purse is a portable pharmacy with giant bottles of Tums, Tylenol, various other meds, eye drops, tissues and Shout wipes.
Worse yet, my olfactory senses are disintegrating. That or [...]
Autumn hasn’t arrived at my house. It has been delayed, waylaid and halted. It’s been forced into limbo by my pregnancy.
How can that possibly happen? I haven’t baked the first batch of traditional pumpkin bread yet. I’ve been lagging. [...]
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Ever wonder what you’re child’s talents will be?
Ethan Bortnick’s mom didn’t have to wonder for long. When Ethan was 3, he taught himself how to play the piano using the “Baby Einsteins” DVDs. He’s been composing his own music since he was 5 [...]
Language around our house can be salty. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like we’re the Osbournes and the f-bomb is dropped every other word, but there is the occasional curse-word muttering or exclamation.
I’ll admit, in my younger years, I wasn’t so careful to guard my language around my oldest [...]
Naming a baby isn’t going to be easy. I’m 11 weeks pregnant and already hitting a roadblock.
Just so you know, I’m not unreasonable. In fact, I’m fairly flexible. My guidelines for names are: They can’t be in the top 100 of the social security popular names list, it needs to [...]
Babies make me sick. Literally. It’s been 16 years since I last felt the lurches, gags and aversions of early pregnancy.
With Jay, I hugged the porcelain for seven months. My astounding ability to become ill at the smell of salt, watching a McDonald’s commercial or nothing became family legend and [...]
