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Have you ever heard of The Flat Stanley Project? It is a program created by a third grade teacher to help students learn to write letters to each other. I think that letter writing is an important skill to learn, but I also think that Flat Stanley could be used for so much more. In […]

We just came back from a long weekend away, driving the family minivan. Old Faithful is looking a bit banged up, inside and out, showing some of its 170,000 miles more evidently than in the past. We know we’ll need a new car some day, but in the meantime, we are nursing this […]

Every 6-8 weeks, I try to go away by myself for a weekend. Even before we completed our adoption, Peter and I agreed that I would take time off once in a while as compensation for the weekends he’s on call at the hospital and seldom makes it home.
It’s easy to explain to K and […]

As a kid, I can remember long lazy summer days, filled with books. In reality, I don’t think that my summers were all that lazy, but it sure felt great to have a break from the school year routine. My mom, actually kept us pretty busy in the summers. We took […]

Other than the 6-foot snowbank that is still at the foot of my driveway, the most difficult part of living in Maine is being so far from my family. When I lived in Massachusetts, I was only 2 hours away and it was reasonable to make a day-trip to partake in family festivities, […]

Last year we took two (2!!!) family vacations, and were blessed to dip our toes in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in the same year. It was such a great time. Both Hubby and I agree that traveling with the boys is very pleasant, overall. We definitely had stressful moments, but […]

This year, we started what I hope is a new tradition. We took a brief overnight getaway, with our kids, out of town. We walked around. We went to museums. We swam in the hotel pool and ordered room service. It was amazingly restful and fun. All of this […]

Now that I’m safely back home from a visit to my husband’s family in the Northeast, I can say that traveling with a toddler is a breeze.
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O.k., it was stressful and nerve-wracking and I felt like an idiot for even planning this trip. Even so, my son Max did really well. This was […]

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 […]

GNMParents is made up of a team of folks who are dedicated and talented. They share with our community on a volunteer basis, and over the past 11 months we have gotten to know quite a bit about who they are and how they feel. In effort to deepen our community, we have […]