Archive for the ‘Parenting’ Category

We Have A Chair Test On Monday

Ok, I just got sick of looking at the small images, so I uploaded ones that are a little bigger. I was testing pulling pics from Twitpic to my blog – and that’s what sent them over here so small. So here are a couple slightly larger versions: Also, Angela’s question below about chair tests [...]

I Am Puppy’s Mommy

And that is it. Just Puppy. Everyone else – I’m their ‘Mom’. I had just given Puppy his medicine in rolled up pieces of bread. And he was sniffing at the counter, hoping there was more up there (yes, he’s that tall) and I told him, ‘No honey, there’s no more – Mommy’s just cleaning [...]

First Band Performance For The 2009-2010 School Year

One of my favorite bloggers went to the Dallas Cowboys football game and used a ‘new to me’ feature of Flickr to share the pics with us. I’m so excited that John P. gave us the heads up about this feature – embedding a slideshow. I just love it! It’s so much easier! It’s easier [...]

Revelation On Parenting Teenagers

Image via Wikipedia To be honest, it’s a small revelation. It’s nothing that’s going to help us all get along better with our teenagers. It’s nothing that is going to be printed in the next “Parent Your Teen” guidebook. No therapists – of teens or their moms (or dads) – are going to be helped [...]

This Is My Child

You guys are completely jealous, aren’t you?

Don’t Get Fussy – Just Get Weepy!

Bringing up girls is hard. They get all hormonal and crap, you know? Not to say that boys are easy – good gawd, no! I don’t mean that at all – just that girls have their own brand of difficult. And sometimes it’s hard to remember that sweet, precious connection you used to have with [...]