Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Kiddo#3’s baseball coach wants to kill him, and I’m not sure I should prevent it. The team is an instructional league for kindergarten through second grade. It’s got very gentle rules, such as every child gets to bat every inning,…
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In the car, I suddenly realized my kids were discussing how they’d answer the question “If you could change one person, who would it be?” This is an offshoot of Sunday at church where the priest gave some answers from…
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Someone on my parenting group asked for advice about getting a bird out of her chimney, so let’s travel back in time to when I found myself listening to a scratch-scratch-scratch in my own chimney. The year was 2000. A…
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Meg, from one of my parenting forums, redacted this from the FDA’s letter about the Tylenol, Benedryl, Motrin and Zyrtec recall. This is long but please read all the way through so you can understand why many parents are outraged…
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In a recent discussion about Catholicism, someone told me that she disagrees with the position of the Virgin Mary in Catholicism because “God does not share His glory,” and to back that up there’s a passage in Isaiah where God…
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Angelborough looks vaguely obscene these days. We’re voting on a new library, and everyone has an opinion. That is to say, everyone has an opinion that we need a new library, as the current library is smaller than my house,…
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Recently I’ve been thinking about life more in terms of seasons than of permanency. Whether it’s that I’m getting older I’m not sure, but I’ve stopped reacting to situations as if they’re the permanent state of being. I’m feeling more…
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