How to plan a Star Wars party

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My older son probably didn’t even know what Star Wars was until he was nine, but he has a little brother, and like all little brothers everywhere, he was introduced to things like Star Wars and Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings far earlier than I’d have preferred. He may not know what it [...]

How I organized my kids’ school work

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My boys are six years apart, so for many years, I only had one school kid. And every year after conferences and when school was done, I dutifully saved his work — by dropping the whole lot of it in some random plastic bin in the basement or basket in the office. Out of sight, [...]

Just one thing is probably enough

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You might be surprised, given the quantity of photographs I post and all my big talk about organizing, that I’m terrible at keeping track of memories and milestones (unlike Breanne). Proof: I do not have wedding photos on my walls, nor do I have an album, nor do any of our parents (long story). We’ve been [...]

Clickery for May 31, 2013

Welcome to Clickery, a weekly feature where we share things we like because maybe you’ll like them too. Jen’s Links I must have parenting especially on my mind this week. I need help, but mostly I need to laugh. I liked this list of 50 open-ended questions to ask your older kid. It is hard [...]

How to make baby onesies with iron-on transfers

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One of my younger sisters is having her first baby in July and I had a great time throwing a shower for her with my stepmom just last week. My happy job was to decorate in pink sock monkeys and bring the activities. (There’s very, very little pink in my life, and I’ll take any [...]

10 things I didn’t know about my sewing machine

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When I was 11 my mom signed me up for sewing lessons with her friend, a professional seamstress and tailor. It was summer, and knowing now what it is like to have kids hanging around the house all day, I’m sure it was a device to keep me busy. That, and I was fond of [...]

A good day in tweendom

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It’s so hard to be 11, almost 12. It’s so hard to be a mom when your kid is 11, almost 12. We are firmly into the tween experience around here and wow . . . just, wow. Not unlike realizing that no one but me was going to care for that tiny newborn, entering [...]

Clickery for May 3, 2013

Welcome to Clickery, a weekly feature where we share things we like because maybe you’ll like them too. Jen’s Links “The visual sense is the strongest developed one in most human beings. It’s only natural that 90 percent of an assessment for trying out a product is made by color alone.” Buffer’s interesting article about [...]