Babble

I have my kids on homeopathic flu stuff, vitamin C and now that Mags has entered into flu world, echinachea...(not to mention the amazing and not-at-all-natural tylenol and motrin). It seems to help, I really think that all the juice mixtures and little natural remedies are a good prevention tool.  Mags has been home from school for a ...

Halloween is long gone by now except for the bag of candy that will surely last until February. Instead of trick or treating around the neighborhood, we brough the kids to New Orleans.    Our nanny Julia, matched our little witches.     The VooDoo Festival had a kid portion, called VooBoo. It offers a safe ...

June's new favorite saying, "I'm scared." She is suddenly terrified of the most random things. She sees "eyes" in everything (kind of creepy when she points at the corner of the room and says "Eyes, scary.")   The first weird "eye" sighting happened when she put down her rice crispy ...

Kindergarten. She loves it. She loves it not...She loves it?   I spend bedtime these days discussing why people go to school. I let her talk. I listen. Sometimes the conversation ends in a point blank reason why people go to school. Always, except for last night when Jason put her to bed, she says the day is too long at school. I ...

The last thing Mags said to me when I put her to bed two nights ago:  "Bite me, Mom."     But, before you jump to conclusions of any kind you should know we were joking around earlier in the day about biting people.  I "pretend" bit her on the arm.  Then she thought that was extremely ...

We played a few amazing festivals this summer.  Wanderlust (a festival of yoga and music) was held at the top of Squaw Valley.  We actualy took gondolas to the stage.  The kids didn't make it to that festival but had they come, i think they would have hated the cross country plane ride even despite seeing music and swimming at ...

Summer is fun.  The past couple months have been full of firsts for Mags and some for Junebug too...first time being flower girls, first time camping, first time riding a bike with no training wheels, first time going off the diving board at the pool, first time riding a horse, first time picking an onion from Grampa's gardnen in ...

Now that summer is getting comfortable, the four of us have been hiking.  We went on our first official camping trip this week. Except for all the tree roots that June tripped over a few times, it was tear-free and fun. We even fit our pack and play into the tent.      It's odd that while I spend so much time on the ...

Last week, our almost 5 year old:       5 years ago today...     Time flies.

Me-always losing everything.  Mags-expert finder.   I've always loved Found Magazine.  If you don't know about it, buy a copy-there are 6 issues and some books too.  The basic concept is that it's a collection of found things-mostly funny grocery lists, weird love letters or random polaroids that are found all ...