Talkin' 'Bout the Next Generation

Your average travelers stay in hotels on vacation, but when my family visits my grandmother, we check into a retirement home rather than the...

Only among my friends, it seems, will a parenting discussion lead to the question of whether we should teach our kids the word vulva or vagi...

After a week and a half, I feel comfortable saying that Oliver no longer uses a pacifier.  For a few months now he's gone without one at...

In less than a month Soren has turned into a confident crawler.  I enjoy watching him as something across the room catches his attention, li...

The cabin has been somewhat of a point of contention between Chris and me since Oliver was born.  Chris grew up going to the cabin and that ...

Soren is weaned, at least I think.  A few weeks ago, he refused to nurse one morning, but happily took a bottle.  I secretly hoped he was se...

I had six hours off today.  Six hours by myself.  No husband, no kids.  The house to myself.  Quiet and solitude are rare in my life right n...