Touch wood I have only been in hospital 3 times. For the births of all 3 children. My experience each time was reasonably good. I worried most about the safety of my newborn. My health second. We left the hospital…
Category: Musings on Family
Get Revved up with Big G Cereals! [Giveaway]
I’ve fought the good fight. You know the fight where you tell your MIL to not send over sweets and candy bars and — oh my goodness — chocolates. I’m not against candy. Everything is good…in moderation. It’s the moderation…
AE Pass and the Teen
My teen has become a frugal shopper. We are a million miles away from the 8/9-year-old who insisted on buying shirts from Limited Too now Justice even though the shirt cost her entire life savings. In those early days of…
Getting Your Science Fair On! #ProjectReady
My 7th grader loves shopping. She’s the type who gets excited about a trip to Walmart. Doesn’t matter what we are there for. She loves shopping. Last night we needed to pick up the supplies for her Science Fair project.…
Musings on Science Fairs #ProjectReady
I never did a Science Fair project when I was a kid. Not at any level of school — elementary, middle, or high school. My school — an all girls school in the north of England — was wholly focused…
Musings on Babies: Tracking Your Baby
The scraps of paper. Notebooks purchased with the best of intentions. Writing on my hands and arm. Telling my sleepy spouse the time and praying that he remembered when I started nursing as I knew I was too sleep-deprived to…
The English Major in Me Wants to See Gnomeo & Juliet [Giveaway] [Closed]
A few months ago we saw Tangled. We missed the official screening due to traffic. You would think after living in the D.C. area for over 20 years that I would check traffic BEFORE driving to an event AFTER learning…
I Play Chef for My Kids
It should come as no surprise to people who know me that I put things off. My procrastinaton genes run deep. Very deep. In the fall I said I would do roundup posts for all the articles I have written…
Date Nights…Western Howard County
Date Nights? Do you remember them? I have vague memories of when going on date nights was very easy. Lately with kids in a multitude of activities and general family exhaustion from our hectic schedule, date nights are few and…
Date Night? I Vaguely Remember…
Date night? What’s that? I thought when my children got older that we would be gadding about all over the place. So not true. Even with a built-in babysitter — my teen is a very responsible 15-year-old — we rarely…
