what do your watermelon practices reveal about you?
Everything you ever needed to know about yourself you can learn from watermelon.
bad skin biopsy: why I’m lurking in the shade
Basal Cell Carcinoma has turned me into a sunscreen freak and a shade ninja.
school bus 3rd birthday party
Throwing a DIY Birthday party at home is a busload of work. But it’s fun. In fact, it’s pretty much The Most Fun.
reasons my child is spinning
Our mostly chill and easy-going child has begun to occasionally resemble a tiny tornado. Sometimes he whirls around our house so fast that he’s a blur. In honor of his safety, the safety of others, and the safety of our house, we’re trying to figure out WHY he’s spinning.
so many aprons…
When I got married, several people gave me aprons. I got floral aprons and aprons with polka dots. Some had frills and one was covered in calico fish. I appreciated […]
can I interest you in some delicious cucumber water?
This is a very complicated one ingredient recipe. Probably only professional chefs and true culinary geniuses will be able to follow it.
potty training checklist
Let the official potty training begin! We’re about to do the three-day sit-in. Do you have any advice?
introducing… The Chronicles of Parenting
When I was in college, I dreamed I would one day have a newspaper column. And then, POOF!* It happened! *POOF in this case does not indicate a magical or instantaneous occurrence.
disclaimers for the best popsicles I’ve ever made
If you make popsicles for your two year old, think carefully where he eats them, ie not near the white couch.
for father’s day I tried to be less of a ‘but’head
For father’s day, I gave my husband the best gift I could think of: I didn’t use the word “but.”
new fence: our yard got braces!
Isn’t it weird/cool/surprising when seemingly disparate elements in life intersect? For example, here at the home tome headquarters we finally got a fence installed this week. Simultaneously, I have been […]
the splinter must come out
The interloper was lodged sideways under the surface of our toddler’s palm and it looked pretty cozy in there, with no intention of budging. We had our tweezers ready, but […]
hey parents: embrace your inner goof
I’m finding, lately, that parenting is a bit like performing in a slapstick comedy or maybe a vaudeville routine: if you’re anything like me, you’ll go to some strange lengths […]
a constant state of massage
My neck? When I make the ill-advised decision to turn my head, it creaks like the rusted-out door of an ancient castle. My shoulders? Knots as big and dense as […]
what it’s like to live with a packing tape and wire artist
If you’ve ever sat around wondering what it’s like to live with an artist who works with packing tape and wire (and I know this is happening in households across […]
our house, embroidered
Imagine your house. Imagine your house embroidered. As in: depicted in a piece of embroidery. This is what we did when we discovered the work of Stephanie K. Clark, an […]
puke happens
I wrote an essay about my most disgusting (and heart-wrenching) experience as a parent so far and it’s up on Great Moments in Parenting today… Click here to read: Puke: […]
a day in the life: today’s checklist
A Checklist: wake up to discover that you didn’t clean out milk bottle from last night, check make the mistake of sniffing it to see how nasty it smells, check […]
