Not-So-Very-Wordless Wednesday: The Six-Year-Old Gets a Planner

(Normally I wouldn’t subject you to so very many words on a Wednesday, but I haven’t had a chance to post yet this week, and the…

The most surprising thing about decluttering…

A surprising side effect of decluttering so intensely for so many days… The Six-Year-Old is much less interested in watching TV now that the Toy Rapture has happened.

Review: Hasbro Easy Bake Ultimate Oven

For her birthday this year, The Six-Year-Old received an Easy Bake Oven. This was easily the most anticipated gift of the birthday season, as she has been asking for one since last December 26. So what did she think?

Wordless Wednesday: The Six-Year-Old Issues an All-Points Alert

Recently I discovered Wordless Wednesdays through the blog, 5 Minutes for Mom. Basically, on Wednesdays all around the Internet, bloggers post their favorite photos, ideally without…

Insightful things about grief The Five-Year-Old says at 8:59 a.m.

Exactly one minute before I was due to drop The Five-Year-Old off at kindergarten this morning, she said something remarkably insightful. But before I get to…

Chess for Children

Mommyo, chortling as she opens up her Amazon package: “The Five-Year-Old and I have a secret weapon to beat you at chess, Daddyo.” The Five-Year-Old, subtly:…

Holiday Madness & Other News of the Week

Greetings from the one remaining corner of my home where there is room to seat both me and my computer. I really thought this decluttering stuff was supposed to create space. Instead, it seems to have completely eliminated it. I hope to have better news on this front next week. But in the meantime, here’s this week’s news party.

Wordless Wednesday: Mars

I’ve been entrenched in the cluttering stage of decluttering for what seems like weeks now, which gives me an added appreciation for the minimalist Martian landscape.…

“What does bug poop look like and smell like?”

After reading Taro Gomi’s book Everybody Poops, The then Three-Year-Old naturally wanted to know what bug poop looked like. I put her off as long as I could. The topic has been coming up again lately for reasons I don’t want to examine too closely, so I decided it was time to give her an answer.