Today was the second day since October that school drop off was without a major meltdown. Sam has been horribly upset every school day since I last wrote about this. I was always assured by his teachers that he was fine as soon as I left, often before I was even out of the building, [...]

I got to go out to lunch yesterday with some local mom bloggers. The ladies behind the wonderful sites Elebelly, Occupation: Mommy, Project: Motherhood, and Raising Itty Bitty Bookworms had nice long chats about . . . what the heck did we talk about? All I know is we made it last as long as [...]

Sam’s school hosted a small fundraiser tonight. I had big plans to put up some video of him and his class doing their little song for the rest of the group. I should know better than to pre-blog anything in my head. Because, of course, were I to show you the video it would basically [...]

I’m so excited to share the following entries from our first Total Mom Theme exercise. I love the various ways each person interpreted the topic, “Exploration.” I was equally excited when I found similarities between posts as I was when they were completely different. (And I learned that I need to not read anyone else’s [...]

 I always end up without my camera when the light is great, right? I still thought these turned out pretty well.

The First, at 14 months old - He looks at it quizzically. He studies its features: sides, top, even the bottom. He watches as the other children climb to the top and fly down. When coaxed, he eventually approaches. Apprehensive, he backs away and returns several times. Finally, with mommy’s help, he sits at the [...]

For somewhere between four and six minutes today, Sam was lost.
We decided to go and check out the new Please Touch Museum this morning. It was rainy and gross out. That combined with it being a Saturday was an assurance that the recently opened museum would be packed. We figured we’d try it anyway. We [...]