Wednesday Outing: Farrel-McWhirter Farm Park

August 4, 2010

It’s been three weeks since my commitment to do something special with the kids once a week before Labor Day. On July, 20, I researched and wrote a list of the things I really wanted to do. Today we checked yet another one off the list. This morning, as rush hour was coming to an […]

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Life Changes in an Instant

August 3, 2010

Sweetness was driving me nuts last week. She was deeply entrenched in her “no” phase; using my floor as a toilet all week, refusing to get the hang of potty training; and was slapping her brother no less than 3,456 times a day. By Wednesday I was running out of patience with her. My focus […]

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3 Sibling Rivalry Pitfalls to Avoid

August 2, 2010

It might happen the moment you bring baby number two home. It may not rear its ugly head until that younger child starts moving under her own power. If you’re really lucky, it may even start a little later. But make no mistake, siblings will fight and it will test you, possibly to the point […]

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Sweet Saturday

July 31, 2010

Sweetness has the power to crack me up and make my heart melt at the same time. This morning, while I was having my morning tea and checking e-mail, Sweetness heard a sound and asked what it was. “That’s Jack snoring,” I told her, without looking from the screen. She went into the living room […]

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Getting Baby to Sleep

July 30, 2010

Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles. By popular demand, the following is reprinted from a guest post I did for Molly and Mommy on May 24, 2010. I have to admit, when Alissa asked me to write a guest post on sleep I cringed. It’s hard to find a hotter issue for moms of […]

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Getting out – The Museum of Flight

July 29, 2010

Last week I wrote our wish list of summer outings we must do before school starts after Labor Day. Summer is going so fast and it is so important to me to spend one day a week with the kids doing something fun, either as just the three of us or as a playdate with […]

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Potty Training – Day 4 of 3

July 28, 2010

We continued on in our quest to potty train yesterday. For the full back story, be sure to check out Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. And if you’re looking forward to returning to my regularly scheduled programming, this here report from the bloody war front of Butt Camp is the last of this […]

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Potty Training in Three Days or Less – Day 3

July 27, 2010

Welcome to Day 3 of my little experiment to see if I can finally save $100 a month in diapers. After two years and 10 months of diapers I decided to try a little experiment to see if my little Sweetness, who was showing all the signs of readiness for potty training, would take the […]

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