For nearly a year now, we’ve been a one-car household. This works out fine…great, even…as Charles works from home (and I do, too) and the kids are still little and don’t need to be in five different places at the same time. We save a lot of money by having just one car, and we’ll …
My house isn’t the only thing in need of some serious Spring cleaning. My horse (technically, pony) could stand for a little elbow grease and whitening shampoo, himself. And now I can add “expensive horse detangler” to the list of things he needs. After having kids, I’ve pretty much let Seamus revert to a half-wild …
Motherhood is crazy. When we brought Jack home from the hospital, I realized that I was completely in over my head. As it turned out, all the pregnancy magazines and baby books in the world couldn’t begin to prepare me for the adventure we were embarking on as new parents. There are some really tough …
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about sleep. Jack was 11 months old and I was trying to put a positive spin on the whole terrible-sleeper-who-does-not-even-kind-of-come-close-to-sleeping-through-the-night thing. Of course, when I wrote it there was a little part of me deep inside that thought, “this isn’t going to last forever, I’m sure he’ll be …