Category Archives: parenting

Most of the time our particular style of co-sleeping (Liam in his bed as far past 3 am as I can push Lyria, and then he comes into bed which makes both him happy enough to often sleep right past … Continue reading →

What can I tell you about Liam these days? First, he doesn’t stop moving. Pretty much ever. Or babbling a lot. When he’s in the car seat he gets his babbling time in, and his singing time. And he collects … Continue reading →

I’m still frothing at the mouth at 11d and should stop so I’ll try to tackle this in order. So first, let me set some parameters. Yes, it is my job to get my child an education. However I do … Continue reading →

I want to write like 5 education posts right now, verbose ones. But this is in the moment: Laura at 11d is having a conversation about Thomas Friedman’s op-ed in the NYT and I have started commenting there. I am … Continue reading →

I hope nothing in this post is too smarmy. This is stuff we have baggage about and it’s hard to talk about lofty goals and bitter experience without perhaps sounding a bit smarmy. So we got Noah’s preliminary report card … Continue reading →

I’m posting this even though it probably should be email just because…I’m like that right now. It is tilting the pendulum a bit too far the other way, after my Previous Relationship, but ehn. This discussion started here on the … Continue reading →

I realized today that I have now basically trained Liam to nap on me and nowhere else. This is not good, so we have to work on it. (Of course V. dealt with this the last time, so I could … Continue reading →

Yay Noah’s prior nanny (V., in past blog posts), with whom we have been in touch since and she’s babysat and been a friend of the family and all, has agreed to be the boys’ nanny from Jan – Aug. … Continue reading →