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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...

I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I think it’s time to start buying stuff for Maddie for school in September. Is my baby really old enou...

I know I didn’t write anything on Friday, and you were all waiting to hear how the bike-a-thon went. Unfortunately, it didn’t go just absolu...

Cora has discovered that she can say whatever she wants, whether she has any true authority over the matter or not. And Madeleine, bless 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 ...

Cora’s hit a recent patch of stubbornness – ok, not so recent, since I can’t recall a time when she WASN’T stubborn – and it’s become a batt...

Earlier this month a mom was arrested in Texas for allegedly allowing her kids to play on scooters unsupervised outside; the charge was chi...

The breastfeeding thing seems to be under control now; Maddie’s eating like a pro and I’m all healed up.  We’re a great team.  I cannot forg...

We spend many mornings poolside – and when I say mornings, I mean 10 a.m. to 1:30 or so. We take snack breaks and consume lots of fruit and ...

Monday night one of my advanced acting students approached me with tears in her eyes. A high school junior, she’s been one of my favorite s...