Daring Young Mom

I am TRAU-MA-TIZED!
Last week I took Laylee to pick up her registration packet for kindergarten. [read more at Parenting.com]
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A prescription for her restlessness and boredom.
A key to becoming a knower of all knowledge.
A magical device to transform the gibberish that surrounds her into useful language.
A ticket to travel anywhere in the world and meet anyone who’s ever lived in reality or recorded imagination.
Pure joy.
I feel quite certain that learning to read is the [...]

I thought I’d take a few minutes last Monday and teach the kids about Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights in general.
We had a good talk in the car about who Martin Luther King was and what he stood for. Laylee could not get enough. “Tell me another more story about him,” [...]

And now for installment 4 of The Series:
Finally a shelf big enough for my VCR!!

“TV Topshelf - Sturdy shelf lets your TV do something handy!”

After Gandalf was reborn, he invented his own line of cleaning products.

White Wizard Stain Remover

The trees are lonely.

“Sweet William Floral Ring - Pre-seeded floral ring spruces up lonely trees instantly!”

Whoever said [...]

And now for week 3 of The Series:
If you don’t have enough pet hair on your couch, you can get it in just 3 easy steps.

Doggy Steps™

Why waste another day worrying about that ugly septic pipe in your yard when you could spend your time looking at an ugly fake plastic tree stump? (includes lifelike [...]

And now for week 2 of The Series:
If you purchased all of the organizers and devices in the catalog, you would need an organizer to hold all of your organizers. It appears that the catalog itself is an organizer for exclamation points and photographs of sythetic materials.

“Dashboard Organizer keeps essentials at your fingertips so [...]

Dan and I love getting the Harriet Carter catalog and devour it like we’re reading the color funnies. But more than an entertaining page-turner, the Harriet Carter catalog is also an educational tool. The next 4 weekends, I will share some lessons we’ve learned from Harriet Carter that may enrich your lives as [...]

Dan and I are a tad twisted. We are also literate and we have children. We like to read to them. We also encourage them to yell “helloooo” down storm drains to the imaginary people and piranhas who have made the sewer their home, but that’s neither here nor there.
I love how [...]

Tonight as I was giving Laylee and Magoo their bath, life was a dream and a song. Everyone was happy and splashy and damp. Magoo was pouring water over Laylee’s head. She loved it and then suddenly she so didn’t love it. She hated it. Water was evil. Water [...]

I’m continuing the homeschooling discussion over at parenting.com and I’m wondering, “Do moms’ heads every explode from all the decisions they have to make about their child’s well-being?”