Archive for category: Mom’s Voice

Done Asking the Questions

0 / February 17, 2012 10:55 am

I unveiled my new plan for the kids a couple weeks ago. We had an impromptu family meeting where I explained the paper I was holding in my hand.  Then, to make sure it wasn’t too low for our teenager

Memories Becoming History

Memories Becoming History

4 / February 13, 2012 12:06 am

My friend Jean, a fellow Newport Beach native, suggested I join a group on Facebook called “I Grew up in Newport Beach Before It Was the OC.” I was leery about joining any group on Facebook. But then I read

Putting Parenting Problems in Perspective

1 / February 3, 2012 10:11 am

Charlotte turning 2 was no ordinary birthday celebration. She was born three months prematurely, weighing about the same as eight sticks of butter.  Everything we take for granted in a full term, healthy baby, from breathing to eating, was a

A Few Words of Wisdom

0 / January 26, 2012 5:51 pm

I have given birth to four kids. And had I known what a pain in the tush extracting my four wisdom teeth was going to be, I would have opted to have eight kids and skip the teeth thing altogether.

Imagination Stars on Open-Mike Day

1 / January 22, 2012 8:03 am

Life couldn’t have been be better for Sally when last week she not only had what she described “the best field trip” of her life at the Environmental Nature Center (largely due to the fact they got to try to

Testing a Life

0 / January 13, 2012 6:00 am

When I was on the Great American Field Trip, roadschooling this past fall, one of the most common questions I heard was, “Do you give the kids tests?” No, I would tell curious people along the way, I don’t. But

Family Life Laid Out in Little Boxes

0 / January 6, 2012 7:07 am

With all of the new options of technologically advanced calendar systems, I still prefer the good old-fashioned paper wall calendar. I’ve tried to use the one my smart phone came with and I also tried an online version. Neither gave

Don’t Forget to Water Your Bamboo

0 / December 30, 2011 6:32 am

Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer who planted seeds to grow bamboo. Every day he watered the soil; every day he checked on his plant. An entire year passed and there was no sign that tending to

What’s Your Bag?

What’s Your Bag?

0 / December 23, 2011 12:04 am

Normally we use white kitchen-size trash bags for all of our garbage needs, but the other day I brought out the extra size for some serious cleaning. Wyatt was sitting at the kitchen counter and saw me walk in with

A Big Stack of Traditions

A Big Stack of Traditions

1 / December 16, 2011 3:32 am

Being in retail, my husband, Matt, works around the clock during the holiday season. If there is going to be any merry making, it must be initiated and executed by yours truly. Being raised Jewish, I have the Hanukkah traditions

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