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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 […]

The Punks are growing. It’s not some great revelation, but it does surprise me when they actually demonstrate it.
Punk #1 is 8 years old and on Saturday decided that he’d really like an iPod. This didn’t come out of left field, his mom and I each have one and his eight year old […]

When my kids were all small, bedtime was fairly routine. When it comes to meals and bed, I tend to have structured times so that both kids and parents know what happens when. I am not a completely structured person, overall, but I do like to know that my kids will be in […]

Thanksgiving acts as a catapult which throws my family into the holiday season with reckless abandon. Suddenly, life is much busier, to do lists are much longer, and time is much more limited.
Last winter there was some interesting and helpful conversations here at GNMParents about preparing for the holidays. Instead of you spending […]

I belong to a Community Supported Agriculture Farm, or CSA. In February, I pay a flat fee, and from June through Halloween, I get a share of the farm’s production. This year, we’ve had heirloom tomatoes (over 70 varieties), green beans, corn, edamame, gorgeous eggplant, flowers, herbs, garlic, onions, pumpkins and gourds, and […]

Despite my announcing (to myself) that I would get my holiday shopping done this summer, here we are in November, and I’ve got very little to show for it. I’ve gotten five gifts out of about 30 or so. And while I’m trying really hard not to cave to the stress of it all, well, […]

The day after Thanksgiving was a tradition in our house growing up. Each year on “Black Friday” (I wrote a post last year about the significance of this term) my mother would drop my sister and I off “downtown” to do our annual winter clothes shopping. I suppose when we were younger, she accompanied us […]

Let’s play a game. It’s called, “What If You Had To Sell Your House Next Week?”
Fun game, huh?
We’ve been telling our friends, neighbors, and the Internet (as always, the Internet knew first) that we are moving across town. I keep thinking, this could be worse. We could be moving first cross-country, then out of the […]

Not too long ago, my sister called and asked me to measure The Poo’s waist. My girl is lucky enough to have a very talented auntie, who makes her Halloween costumes from scratch every year.
Last year she was a sassy girl-pirate, and this year she will parade about the neighborhood as Angelina Ballerina.
So.
I needed a […]

Disclaimer: I am not a crafter and I don’t play one on tv. Craft projects don’t happen very often in our home, and when they do, they aren’t very involved. If you are a real crafter, you might want to avert your eyes. Nothing to see here. Pay no attention […]