Old Mother Hubbard

I was reading over at Cindy’s tonight, and came across her post on “Free Range Kids“.
I used to be the helicopter mom.  I even reminisced about it last year on my old blog.  Our local news team does a yearly scare the crap out of parents bit where they have a man with a bandaged [...]

Back-up Plan

Well, WinterPromise went back to the source.  It looks good on paper.  I’m sure it is right for the right kid.  Mine wasn’t that kid.  I purchased it because it promised, “You can count on activities that are exciting for kids and realistic for parents.“  Umm, nope, not so exciting for us.  Again, I’m sure [...]

Pete, The Entrepreneur

Yesterday, my friend Pogo and I took the boys Letterboxing. Yeah, I know, but it was an easy quest. Only .4 miles and there were four boxes. We managed to find all four and everyone survived. Phew!
This morning, BN gave me a five dollar bill and asked if I could get [...]

Toe Walking

I don’t really like sharing personal information about my kids, partly for safety and partly because I don’t have their permission – and let’s face it, the internet is forever. But I’m fed up with the so called experts.
Anyway, Pete started walking on his toes when he was two. We thought it was cute and [...]

BBC Book List

Kaytabug posted this meme on her almost forgotten blog (thanks to plurk) and she got the idea from Nine Acres
Here is what you do:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize the books you LOVE.
3) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read [...]