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The $1 Family Meal

March 10, 2010

My husband is a great cook, and prepares most of our family meals.
He’s not one of these food show followers who makes a different gourmet recipe every night of the week with the rare vegetables he picked up at the farmer’s market on his way home.
He’s more of an intuitive cook. A guy who can [...]

Tagged as: barbie dolls, cheap, cheap cooking, chickpea, cooking, family, family meal, food, food and drink, frugal, gourmet recipes, healthy food, kitchen, martin, meals, recipe, vegetarian

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Better late than never, here are last week’s Links

March 8, 2010

I had a sudden attack of Playing Outside and Taking Long Naps over the weekend, so no posts. Here’s what I was up to last week:
Working Parents Are Exhausted – Strollerderby – Almost 60 percent of middle-class households have both parents working outside the home. And we’re exhausted by it.
Protecting Baby’s Hearing – Strollerderby – [...]

Tagged as: abortion, abortion politics, abortions, baby, child rearing, childhood, education, family, ferber method, human development, middle class, parenting, sex ed, sleep, sleep train, sleeping, social issues, weekly link round-up

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Sleep Training: Cruel or Kind?

March 3, 2010

Sleep has been the albatross around the neck of my parenting life for the past six years.
I have a piece up at Strollerderby this week about sleep training.
Seems that parents who feel OK about letting their babies cry it out are more successful at getting their little ones to sleep. I am not that parent.
Before [...]

Tagged as: baby crying, beds, child abuse, child rearing, childhood, co sleeping, cry, family, ferber method, human development, human interest, infancy, infant bed, infant crying, night nurses, parenting, sleep, sleep train, sleeping

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Why I Quit Everything

March 2, 2010

Last September, when my five-year-old started kindergarten, she also went to swimming lessons twice a week, gymnastics class once  a week, music class on Saturday mornings, and a weekly play group at the community growing center.
My toddler had a lighter schedule, comprised of only swim lessons and a weekly playdate at the library. I had [...]

Tagged as: family, free-range parenting, frugality, gymnastics class, kids, kids love, kids running, parenting, playdates, quits, rio, serena, simple living, slow parenting, swim classes, swim lessons

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Home!

February 23, 2010

Ok, so we don’t actually live in the airport. But in that ‘where the heart’ is way, we just got home and it’s bliss.

Tagged as: family, love, travel

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Hide and Seek

February 11, 2010

The girls are playing hide-n-seek in my bedroom. They are taking turns beautifully. This is how their game works:
Rio: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25, 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50, 51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75, 76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89…uh…um…Mama, what comes after 89?
Me: 90.
Rio: Oh! yeah, 90. Well, sometimes I need to think for a long time about what number comes next and then I remember but then I get confused [...]

Tagged as: family, parenting, play, rio, serena

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And the Cat came back

February 2, 2010

This is Monster. He followed me home one day when I was 17 and he was a few weeks old. He had a spot of white paint on his forehead and was very hungry, and he cleverly snuck in the front door ahead of me and braved the wrath of the other resident cats to [...]

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Choosing a Greener Life Together

January 27, 2010

On the heels of my Monday post at Get Rich Slowly about talking to your spouse about money, here’s a reader-requested post about how couples can communicate about green lifestyle choices.
In general, my husband and I get along fine about our green living. Our values about things like making green life choices are very closely [...]

Tagged as: family, green

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A Possibly Perfect Saturday

January 23, 2010

It’s been a pretty chaotic week, with everyone finally (!) settling back into normal routines after all the holiday madness. Last night I went to bed staggeringly tired and emotionally burned out, wondering how this whole “life” thing was ever supposed to work.
It was supposed to work like today. The kids slept beautifully through the [...]

Tagged as: family, parenting, serena

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Well, hello there 2010

January 1, 2010

A lot of people have written extensively about how happy they are to bid good-bye to 2009. For me, it’s been a pretty good year. I’m not sorry to see it go, but only because I’m looking forward to carrying all that joy with me into 2010.
2009 was a year that saw the continuation of [...]

Tagged as: family, holiday, money, new year's resolutions, relationships, sex, witchcraft, writing

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