by Julie | Oct 24, 2008
The best use of the neighborhood posse thus far: the other day they raked the leaves in our yard. They had a great time raking them into a pile and jumping into it, and they actually did a fairly fantastic job of clearing the yard. Some ran home to get rakes, some...
by Julie | Oct 23, 2008
We had our first parent/teacher conference Tuesday night (what’s the proper punctuation there? parent-teacher? parent:teacher? parent:teacher::muffin:bagel?). It was fairly nerve-wracking. The conclusion (not that this is a huge surprise) is that Henry is very...
by Julie | Oct 22, 2008
Ok, so I’ve been slowly switching to stainless steel water bottles, but after reading this article in Self Magazine, I’m getting rid of all our plastic bottles, especially our plastic sippy cups. It didn’t help that I read the article right after our...
by Julie | Oct 21, 2008
Saturday was a typical day in the neighborhood. We spent the day half-parenting the posse and full-parenting our own kids while trying to finish up one more house project before winter (getting siding on a last little bit of our refurbished back porch). At around 4:00...
by Julie | Oct 18, 2008
Those of you who know me (this is a bit of a joke, since everyone who reads this also actually knows me at this point), know that my kids don’t watch television unless they’re sick or getting a haircut. Somehow, though, I have started letting them...
by Julie | Oct 17, 2008
Yesterday I was feeling guilty that I’m not doing things like making spider webs with the kids, or fun tree art, or even educational word rings. And suddenly it hit me, why the hell am I not doing these things? Of course I want to be a mom who does fun crafts...
