Archive for July, 2010

Yep. It’s never too early to give your kid a can of spray paint, a mohawk, a ukulele and some loud aggressive music. My sister just wrote up her list for toddlers, elementary school age and teenagers. I distinctly remember us dancing to Rock Lobster back in the day. so possibly Candyoisis is WRONG (yes, [...]

Toy guns

Recently Jack learned the words Kill, Dead, and Kill you Dead. It’s kind of horrifying to hear your 3 year old say those things. And I’ve been thinking about the day he starts doing that at our playgroup. That day was today. He picked up a stick that was gun shaped and started to say [...]

We attempted a plum jam last week. Plums were picked at a friends house and we bought some strawberries to add. We also added allspice and cinnamon. I was a bit scattered while we were making it and added the pectin at the wrong time. So the jam didn’t really gel like it should have. [...]

I hate parenting magazines. Every single woman depicted in a parenting magazine is over 5’8″ and weighs about 120 lbs. As all 5’1″ of me was sitting in my paper gown in the coochie doctors office the other day I accidentally picked up a parenting magazine and ever since have been in a shame spiral. [...]