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One of Maddie’s favorite books is You Can’t Take A Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum . It follows, among other things, a girl through her...

Madeleine’s been eating rice cereal for almost a week now, and she’s on a vitamin supplement with iron.  We just had a diaper insufficiency ...

After fooling me with a relatively good day on Sunday, Cora's relapsed - as in vomiting again. The doctor finally gave her an anti-nause...

When Maddie was born, my mother-in-law said, “Now is when you build a tight white fence right around their little bodies. And you protect th...

The 4 a.m. breathing check. You’re lying in bed, enjoying the fact that Pumpkin’s slept for six hours solid and not asked for her usual 3 a....

As most of you know, I’m a reasonably crunchy person : I make my own yogurt and cleaning supplies, and I wash my face with honey. (Yes, just...

Li’l Bit, this is a tough time for you right now. You, my friend, have such a big heart. And as we’ve talked about – a LOT – recently, Bi...

Monday night I got home from rehearsal and climbed into bed just past midnight. Wide awake with song lyrics and dance steps running through ...

God bless the suburbs. Mock them all you want (and believe me, as a hardened New Yorker I do plenty of that), but they know how to cater to ...

Two Sundays ago, Cora was hit with bad diarrhea for about twenty-four hours, thankfully BEFORE we got in the car to go to church. A few days...