Summer garden party? Going to a stylish restaurant? Getting down? School clothes? With my 10-year-old…you just never know what she will come out of her bedroom wearing. Stripes and plaid. Paisley and fluorescent. Everyday is a mystery…except mismatch day at…
Author: Jill Berry
Seizing family time one dinner...game night...movie at a time.
Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers…just writing it down makes me cringe. I’m four for zero for joining WW. Joined in the 80s, 90s, and I *think* 2000. At my best I lost 10 pounds. At my worst I went for weeks without losing…
Ecostore USA Teams up with Disney Earth and Radio Disney
My friend and her daughter saw Disney Earth at a private viewing. Harrummph. I want to see this film! My daughter is going on a field trip to see Disney Earth on Earth Day. I wasn’t chosen as a chaperone.…
April 20-26 — National TV Turn-Off Week
Without TV to watch, a kid, a preteen, and a teen might have fun playing with the box that the TV came in! Did you know that tomorrow is the first day of National TV Turn-Off Week. It goes through…
Sports Parenting Made Easy: T-Ball
So, your child is playing t-ball for the first time. Maybe this is your first time as the mom or dad of a sports player. Take it from me…you are in for a good experience. I’ve said it before and…
…and I’m in The Washington Post!
A week or two ago I responded to a reporter’s request to find people who had won things or found freebies. Here’s the Washington Post link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/18/AR2009041800113.html In the fall I was a winning machine. It seemed to me that…
It’s All Good on the T-Ball Field.
Adventure Boy and Coach Dad — at the photo stand Obligatory pic of Oriole Bird…unlike some of the kids my son did not kick the Oriole Bird! Throwing out the first pitch — well, it’s t-ball so there is no…
C-Sections: 5 Years Later
I posted recently on my first c-section in 1996. The c-section was unexpected. Do I have regrets? Not really. Do I wish I had natural childbirth? Not really, because I feel strongly that I was meant to have a c-section.…
Williamsburg — It Never Gets Old to Me
May Day, May Day! Tired, cranky 2-year-old in need of a nap sitting by the maze at the Palace Gardens! Noncranky, perfectly contented 2-year-old taking a ride on the bus — his favorite part of the trip by a country…
My Son Is Trouble and mumble, mumble, The Washington Post Called!
“What me cause trouble? You must be thinking of someone else? My son suffering from strep throat. Let’s just say we had a “night” and leave it at that. Oh, you want me to elaborate. Well, O.K. My son —…
