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Thursday was a particularly eventful day. It was eventful because it finally really hit me that I would be doing another triathlon in a little over a week and I still hadn’t bought the dreaded wetsuit. I checked the time and realized that I should have enough time to drive out to the […]

My stomach turns at the smell of most baby food. Not so much the first stages; bananas and apples are pretty non-offensive. Once they move on to the pureed version of turkey and noodles, though, I can’t quite conceive the yellowish gelled glop as food. Combine the smell of this epicurean treat […]

So. You’ve gone out with the kids are picked some berries. Now what do you do with them?
For starters, there’s always the “wash and eat” option. My boys love fresh berries. I do sprinkle a little sugar over anything tart.
The next thing I usually do with berries is make […]

When I decided to do a triathlon, the sport I was most confident about was swimming. After all, I swam competitively from 4th grade through college. What was 400 yards in the water for a triathlon when my best event used to be a mile? Never mind that fact that I’m going […]

I’m writing this poolside at our gym, watching swimming classes. My kids aren’t in the water right now, but I’ll have the pleasure of watching their classes in a couple of weeks.
How do you teach children to swim when you don’t know whether they’ve ever been in water before? This was the problem Peter and […]

I had many fears about doing the triathlon. For example, I was worried about leaving a trail of vomit behind me and perhaps finding myself on a Youtube clip. However, my bigger fear was about what would follow the event. I worried that once the triathlon was over, so was my exercise […]

I fell into spinning by accident.
The first day of Pilates class, I went to drop my younger son (YS) off at childwatch after dropping my older son off at preschool. Unfortunately, I wasn’t the first to finish the trip. Hordes of preschool parents had also been counting down the days for school to […]

Today I was going to write about either a far too short long weekend or about kids consuming social media. But Lucy has been sick and so, instead, I’m talking about customer service skills.
On Monday night, Lucy and I visited our local Emergency Room. She’d been vomiting all afternoon and had begun melting […]

This past weekend was a big deal to me. On previous Mother’s Days, (alright, there have only been 3 of them since my oldest is only 4), I’ve enjoyed sleeping in until roughly 10 am and having breakfast in bed. This year I was up before 6 am. By 10 am, I […]

One of the things I have noticed about people who work out is we tend to operate at extremes. Some people join a gym and then aren’t able to make it or, in my case previously, could make it but much prefer to sit on the couch with their precious free time. Other […]