My husband fell ill over the weekend, and he had to leave a show early that we went to see together on Sunday. By Monday night, my two littlest kids were throwing up, and Hubby and I stayed up late cleaning them up and comforting them. Monday night, I had a dream that we were […]
My son is newly 2 years old, and he has a favorite movie: Monster House. He asks for it by name, and he just loves it – even if some parts are so scary that he has to watch it from behind his hands: Lisa
Every year, my husband and I are very lucky to get a week-long break from being busy parents of 4 kids when Grandma takes the kids to her house for a week. For the past two years during this vacation, we traveled downstate to King’s Island, an amusement park near Cincinnati. King’s Island offers a
If you are a tangents.org fan, then you’ve already read two riveting accounts of a little tangents field trip of sorts to Cincinnati Ohio. I don’t mean to be redundant, but I’m going to post my take on the excursion for my friends and remote members of my family to read my take on the
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I check out the headlines on Chicago’s suburban newspaper’s website, The Daily Herald, partly because that’s where I’m from (so I know of the locations of the news stories) and partly because my own small town daily paper is kind of boring because we’re… well, crime-less. No news is good news, so they say, and
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The following news story caught my eye because well, let’s be honest – any sort of physical comedy involving someone in a big mascot costume is funny. Ok, so it’s not funny when someone gets hurt; I stand corrected. Best wishes to Ms. Porky Pig for a speedy recovery. From suburban Chicago’s newspaper, The Daily
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My kids are driving me nuts!! It’s the middle of summer, and although I’ve scarcely heard the words, “I’m bored”, my kids are driving me and each other up the walls and back down again. My 3 girls (ages 10, 6, and 3) are bickering constantly! By the time I get their brother (age 2)
I found this article on cnn.com a few weeks ago detailing the laws that foreign countries have about baby names. That’s right – here in the fifty nifty United States we have the freedom to name our kids pretty much whatever we want, but in other countries, they actually have strict laws specially crafted regarding
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So we pull into our driveway after our 4 hour drive back from Nashville Indiana (not going to waste time with a recap, these posts are long enough! See my previous post if you want to know what I’m talking about), and my husband’s aunt’s truck is parked in front of our house. We had
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Well, it’s been a long week and a half – which is probably how long it will take you to read this super-long blog post I’m about to write. Hey, it’s been awhile since I’ve been able to blog, and I have lots to say! Tons of fun since the 4th of July weekend, but
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