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A Night At The Ballet

May 20, 2010

Last Thursday, an editor at one of my favorite magazines sent me a sweet message totally out of the blue inviting me to submit a column for their upcoming issue. Nice. That evening, there was celebratory wine. Also nice. The next morning, I got up and the sun was shining and the kids were happy [...]

Tagged as: dance, family, life stuff

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Useful Lessons In Repsonsible Adulthood

April 28, 2010

So I celebrated Earth Day by driving more than I normally do in a month, taking my kids to McDonald’s for the first time in their lives, and impulse buying plastic toys. In other words, we went on a road trip. I love road trips, but I’ve been pretty gun shy about doing them with [...]

Tagged as: family, road trip, travel, vacation

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Too Old School to Be Cool

April 20, 2010

Martin and I just had a great conversation about money, career, long-term plans. The kind of conversation you want to have with your spouse. We chatted in peace about our jobs and the things we love to do and the way we see our life unfolding for about twenty minutes while our daughters played happily [...]

Tagged as: conversation, cooler, cooler kids, family, fist bump, funny, gestures, greetings, hip, martin, old school, schooling

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Heading South For the Winter

March 24, 2010

The Southern winter, that is. Martin just bought the plane tickets for our family to spend the entire month of July in Argentina with his family. He grew up there, and was the only one to leave. His parents and three siblings all live within a few miles of each other in Buenos Aires, with [...]

Tagged as: family, family of origin, money, travel, vacation

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Speaking Of A Room Of One’s Own

March 17, 2010

This post brought to you by Rio. I had another whole screed planned about the business of blogging and how women are being consumed by big media and advertising agencies, but it will have to wait. Rio had a topic request for today. It went like this: Rio said, “What is the New York Times, [...]

Tagged as: family, funny, house project, parenting, rio

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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 [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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