Bread and Roses

We signed LB up.  She is officially a 6%er having gotten into her new school by lottery. It's a small community charter dual language sc...

LB has long been into imaginary play, but since we moved to two homes, she has amped up several games. When we first moved, she would repe...

I think I'll always have that little baby in my mind when I think of how amazing she is now.  At four, LB had a friends party and ...

Thanks to Little Monsters and Mommies for the inspiration.  It's summer for real after the long cold spring.  Summer in Providence feel...

"This week we are celebrating Father's Day!! We will be discussing all types of fathers (ex: fathers, stepfathers, uncles, grand...

(I make no excuses for the slideshow that accompanies this song) When I was growing up, Joan Baez's Diamonds and Rust was in heavy r...

This post is the one I don't want to spend the weekend writing.  I thought of funnier topics and cuter topics, but this is the post I ne...

We got a Zappos box today, and I realized I've been railing about gender, culture, and children's shoes (excuse me: boys shoes and g...

Yesterday LB woke up in a terrible mood.  She cried and fussed and windged like it was her job.  And as she lay prostrate on the stairs, ove...

I wrote about some of the stuff LB is up to last week, but I forgot to mention the thing that has been the biggest positive for our quali...

The child is a chatterbox, especially when she's tired.  She has started "reading" to whatever mom is putting her to bed, whic...

It's been a week of work, and vomiting, and meetings, with just a little bit of the rage virus added in for good measure.  I finished my...

We had 12 hours of crisis last week when we realized after dinner that LB's very important blanket named "Bitty" was missing. ...

 It seems like they should sell Elmo underwear at Target, but, at least at ours, they don't.  Instead we have kitties and ponies, which ...

It's our new family motto.  I was trying to quickly cram LB into her carseat, but it wasn't working and it seemed like maybe there w...

Not pictured: night wakeups, nebs, puking, blueberry covered face, general destruction.

LB's speech therapist C goes to visit her a daycare once a week, even though the hunch at this point is no speech issues, just some ...

After my recent posts about white kids and race, LB decided to give me some additional content. Imagine the scene: two white ladies relaxi...

A year and some ago, LB was not quite walking , and then she was not quite talking.  I was hanging out in the space between mom of typical ...