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I think it's no secret that I am not the biggest fan of the Santa myth. It feels wrong to me to be lying to my kids. There are a lot of wonderful things about Christmas time, and I don't think we need to invent fairy tales to put wonder and magic into the season. Of course, everyone says, "Oh, you h...

Some random fun with Sydney...... We had a conversation about the fact that sometimes the moon is a big circle and sometimes it's a crescent. She then explained to me that when the moon is small, it's because it broke in half and the other half is on the other side of the world so that the people wh...

Rowan was originally due June 5. I was supposed to be having a scheduled c-section on Tuesday, May 29.....the day after Memorial Day. My last day of work was supposed to be Friday, May 25. On Wednesday and Thursday, I had all-day workshops at work. On Friday, I didn't have much going on at work and ...

Sydney still has bouts of constipation from time to time. As of Sunday, she hadn't pooped in over a week. I told her Sunday afternoon that pretty soon we were going to have to put medicine (a suppository) in her bottom if she didn't poop. It's amazing how quickly that threat will induce action. She ...

So lately Sydney has been in Mommy Mode and won't let me get more than 5 feet away from her. Over the weekend, I wanted to take a shower so of course she had to sit in the bathroom and wait for me to finish. At one point, she noticed that I had shaving cream on my legs. "Mom, why are you shaving you...

Sydney has been waking up occasionally in the middle of the night crying . We thought she was possibly having nightmares, but she can never really tell us what's wrong. Last night she woke up around midnight, hysterical, and spent the rest of the night in our bed. Tonight as I was putting her to bed...

Sydney has been on the cephalexin since Tuesday evening and is now reporting that it no longer hurts when she pees. Whew! Looks like this is going to work. Unfortunately, the medicine tastes terrible and it is orange flavored, which is Sydney's least favorite flavor. We mix it with chocolate syrup b...

Today when we got home from the park, I started running a bath for Sydney. She hopped right in. (Excuse me, carefully climbed in.....we always get corrected if we suggest that she hop. Safety first.) There was only about an inch or two of water in there, and she immediately deemed it too hot. I turn...

On Thursday of last week Mike was working late so Sydney and I were on our own. When we got home from school, she said that she wanted to go the the little park, which is about a block from our house. I told her that I really wanted to go running, so could we go to a park that was further away? She ...

Honestly, I didn't think Sydney would give a crap about Thomas the Train. I didn't think she even knew who he was. We were only going along because of her train obsession. But when we got there and she saw some Thomas stuff, she immediately said, "Mommy! It's Thomas!" How the freak do you know what ...