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December 2011

December 09, 2011

What Kids’ Drawings Look Like Painted Realistically

Artist Dave DeVries has plenty of experience painting monsters for Universal Studios and bringing comic...

December 08, 2011

Enough about “balance”

I was at a conference yesterday for women who are small business owners. It was...

December 08, 2011

Why I got Soap in my Mouth Yesterday

Yesterday I got soap in my mouth. It’s been rough around here lately. Between too...

December 08, 2011

To Yes Ma’am or Not to Yes Ma’am

There are the “Yes, ma’am” moms, and then there are the rest of us....

December 07, 2011

Happy . . . Pearl Harbor Day!

Once I had a dear friend whose birthday fell, unfortunately, on December 7. Every year...

December 06, 2011

Nine Life Lessons From Buddy the Elf

We kicked off the Christmas season last week with our first viewing of Elf, starring Will...

December 05, 2011

Unclean! Unclean! The Spiritual Side of ‘Extreme Domesticity’

When I told a friend about the passionate reaction to my post questioning the...

December 05, 2011

Deadline is Coming to Send a Soldier Holiday Greetings

The Red Cross Holiday Mail For Heroes program is a simple idea: When you're sending...

December 05, 2011

No Rest on Vacation for the Weary Mom

Vacations with children in tow can be downright exhausting. This mom proposes renaming the family...

December 04, 2011

Be Fruitful and Multiply

Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov writes this about children: Their first-nature is based on us. This is...

December 02, 2011

The New Definition of “Equality”

... is “men and women are equal — except for all the ways in which women...

December 02, 2011

The Name Of Your God

Ezra, who is seven, was riding in the back seat of our car with a...

December 01, 2011

Do the “I wannas” and the “Gimmes” live at your house?

It's December! Time for the "I wannas" and the "gimmes" to start! To bring a...

December 01, 2011

Welcoming Advent, or the Necessity of Cheap Chocolate

“It’s so unfair, how come the Advent chocolate calendar doesn’t start on the first day...

December 01, 2011

Stuffed

One of the BEST parts of my work is that I get to travel, meet...

December 01, 2011

Drumroll, Please

Though the women on this blog are not professional book reviewers, we do enjoy reading,...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Domestic Endeavors

We yearn for the rituals of the year, for tying our food to the season...

November 30, 2011

The Downward Slide Continues

In addition to not baking my own bread or growing my own wheat, I have...

November 29, 2011

Fightin’ Words?

Rebecca Cusey's post yesterday about "The New Domesticity" is receiving some strong reactions. I...

November 29, 2011

Further Blurring the Line Between Home and Work

I've always been pretty careful not to use absolutes in my life -- as in I'll...

November 28, 2011

Hopefully He’ll Flunk

I must be crazy because I want William to stay in third grade...

November 28, 2011

Hipster Homemakers and “Extreme Domesticity”

It is a symptom of great wealth that a nation of educated women have time...

November 23, 2011

11 Things for Which I am Grateful in 2011

1) Seven trees tower over our house- majestic white oaks and enormous tulip poplars. When the wind...

November 22, 2011

Friends & reminders

We spent the weekend with friends of ours who live in Northern VA. It was...

November 22, 2011

Praise God. For What?

This Thursday, I will celebrate Thanksgiving with international students who've come to Massachusetts for graduate...

November 22, 2011

The Case of the Missing Books

So it's a Friday morning in the recent past. My oldest, The Solicitor (TS), is...

November 20, 2011

All the Good Mothers Are Doing It

I’m ready for a Southern Living moment in my tiny, charming retro kitchen. My eager...

November 19, 2011

Falling Grace

In the fall, despite ourselves, we flirt with tree worshipping. Our main idol, a glorious,...

November 18, 2011

Surprised by Sorrow

Zach insisted this fall that we sign him up for the more competitive, traveling soccer...

November 18, 2011

Confessions of a Library Fugitive

I am wanted by the library. I have three kids. And I want to do...