Greetings fellow Northwest moms! Welcome to our wonderful wintry weather! Weather we haven’t seen in these parts since, oh, the winter of 1996 when I was pregnant with my first child. Yes, I waddled, skidded and slipped atop the sidewalks, pathways and parking lots with the best of them. I didn’t let my growing belly [...]
“Mom, mom, I really want a cell phone!”
”But you don’t even talk on the regular phone, why do you need a cell phone?”
”I just do . . . everyone has a cell phone.”
”Well, we’re not everyone.”
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve had this conversation with my 11 year-old son, well, you know [...]
Raise your hands if you, like me, are completely befuddled by allowances?
Way back when my kids started doing regular chores (let’s say, around the ages of 5 and 6 for the boys), I figured it was high time to offer them up some kind of incentive for their help around the house. Even though their [...]
It’s June, the kids are out of school, the sun has finally graced Seattle with its smiling face and many of us will soon be hopping the first plane/car/train for the annual family vacay.
As I’m sure you’ve often found, planning travel (ensuring the kids have their favorite toys, your hubby has the proper summer wear, [...]
Parents of the Great Pacific Northwest, brace yourselves. It looks as if all three of our local news weathermen are predicting a sunny weekend in our area! Now, after you have recovered from hearing that news (doesn’t it seem like we’ve been waiting an awfully long time for summer to get here?), you may be [...]
After a highly technical process of elimination (I had my 9-year-old draw a number from a bowl), the winner of the Camp Pack from Mabel’s Labels has been chosen.
Congrats to Shannon! YOU are our lucky winner, and it sounds like you’ll be getting these in just the nick of time!
Here is Shannon’s winning comment:
“With my [...]
We all know by now, hopefully, that having kids means having stuff. It doesn’t seem to matter if you have one or eight kids, little by little their stuff will creep into your life, your kitchen, your wine glass . . .
Come on, am I the only one who has ever found a Polly Pocket [...]
I got an email that Babies R Us is doing a bottle exchange and called this morning to confirm.
This is a great deal if you’re looking to upgrade your bottles to something that’s absolutely safe and free of yucky toxic stuff. Kudos to Babies R Us for doing this (the bottles haven’t actually been recalled; [...]
In my younger eco warrior biologist pre-child pre-marriage years the list of what I could personally do to better the earth and save all the endangered wildlife would have been long, very detailed and really hardcore in a martyr type of way. It didn’t matter how many ships I would have to chain myself to, [...]
My fabulous next door neighbor who I’m currently courting to write a craft column on Seattle Mom Blogs is like the all-natural McGyver of crafting. She can take sticks, dirt specks and pinegum and create an elegant chandelier. She can make anything in the world out of sheep’s wool and she notices lovely things everywhere [...]