It’s March, which means that any day now, The Six-Year-Old will morph into The Seven-Year-Old. The Six-Year-Old is slightly obsessed with dragons (and their Viking trainers) at the moment, thanks to Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon books, so we are planning a dragon (and Viking)-theme birthday party for her. Naturally, the topic of what kind of birthday cake we should serve came up.
I’m desperately hoping that this renovation doesn’t morph into another Project Bob disastrophe. Remind me to tell you that little horror story sometime. For now, here’s…
Pretty much the only thing my husband likes about winter is snow cream, so when we heard that Governor Patrick had declared a snow emergency for Massachusetts, we stocked up on condensed milk and vanilla so that we would be fully prepared once the snow finally arrived.
The Six-Year-Old, upon learning that her blue corn chip is made of blue corn and not simply soaked in blue food coloring, asked: “How many colors…
While writing my post for Wordless Wednesday, I came across this classic Caterpickle from two years ago. The Four-Year-Old is just so darn funny, I couldn’t…
Last week, I saw this heirloom pumpkin display. My photograph told The Six-Year-Old everything she wanted to know about green pumpkins, but Daddyo’s mind had a question. “How can you tell the difference between a green pumpkin and a gourd?”
One of the benefits of packing up your family and moving 2000 miles away from everyone your daughter has ever known is that in this highly…
Scene: Mommyo and Daddyo are discussing which wines to buy to fill out our woefully depleted wine rack. Mommyo (whose migraines keep her from drinking red…
While passing through Chicago O’Hare airport late last year, my daughter was deeply disturbed to learn that Chicagoans don’t put ketchup on their hot dogs. What’s wrong with putting ketchup on hot dogs? And what could you possibly use instead?
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but that’s not because I haven’t been reading the news. Well, ok, maybe it’s a little because I haven’t been reading the news. But mostly it’s because I haven’t been reading the news with an eye to blogging about it. But really, how could anyone resist blogging about a predatory desert mouse? And if you’re going to do that, is it really that big a deal to tack on a photo of the universe’s largest spiral galaxy, a cheese recipe, and this week’s edition of Parenting Advice from Facebook?
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