Category Archives: Kids

Mary Cornforth Cawood: Helping hands in the kitchen

Posted on 16 April, 2013 by mcawood

My oldest and I were doing some shopping at Target the other day when she noticed a KitchenAid display on the end of one of the aisles.  Sitting there, gleaming on the shelf, was a fuchsia-colored stand mixer - her favorite … Continue reading →

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Karah Levely-Rinaldi: The dresser, episode II – “Return of the Stinkeye”

Posted on 16 April, 2013 by krinaldi

So, here I find it two weeks since my last update on the dresser project with my 13-year-old. There’s no empire or light sabers but plenty of clashing to go around. I don’t want to get all negative about this … Continue reading →

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Karah Levely-Rinaldi: Zen and the art of parent/teenager relationships

Posted on 28 March, 2013 by krinaldi

I have a part-time nanny job several days a week. When the family I help offered me a free dresser, replacing it with a built-in bookshelf their toddler daughter could not reach, my brain went a little hog wild thinking … Continue reading →

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Karah Levely-Rinaldi: ‘They grow up too fast’

Posted on 6 March, 2013 by krinaldi

“Enjoy them when they’re young – they grow up too fast!” Did you ever want to punch anyone who told you this when your kids were babies? OK, not REALLY haul off and hit them. I will admit, though, that … Continue reading →

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Sara Todd: I wouldn’t give it up for the world

Posted on 8 February, 2013 by vdaehn1

It’s been a crazy month here in our little home. My son turned 3. Already. How does it happen so fast? Where does this time go? He was my teeny tiny Tanner. He wasn’t even 6 lbs. when he was … Continue reading →

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Lauren Bonk: New-baby setbacks

Posted on 25 January, 2013 by vdaehn1

Life with Lucy has been pretty awesome so far. A little frazzled and a little sleep-deprived but definitely awesome. That being said, her arrival has brought a few… let’s call them setbacks to our household. Before Lucy, Charlie had been … Continue reading →

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Christina Olcott Mundell: Our kids, a year after their family split up

Posted on 14 January, 2013 by vdaehn1

I found out my parents were divorcing through a phone call. I was a junior in college. Newly engaged. Busily planning a wedding, going to school and working to support myself. I remember thinking it was odd that my mom … Continue reading →

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Mary Cornforth Cawood: Half-melted half-birthday

Posted on 8 January, 2013 by mcawood

Sunday was Madeleine’s half birthday – she is officially 10 ½! The half birthday started in preschool. Madeleine has a July birthday, not a part of the school-year calendar, thereby missing out on the much-anticipated event of celebrating your birthday … Continue reading →

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Lauren Bonk: More than ever, we need hope

Posted on 21 December, 2012 by vdaehn1

You’d have to have been living under a rock if you missed all of the social media reactions to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Even the mainstream news sources covered some of the most viral … Continue reading →

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Kristi Davis: 37 is going to be a blast (even if life isn’t as I planned)

Posted on 12 December, 2012 by vdaehn1

I turn 37 this week, and I remember a time when I never thought I would ever be this old. I remember thinking that anything over 30 was just ancient and I was never going to be that woman who … Continue reading →

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