The First of May is Labour/Labor day in Europe. It’s a chance for unions to parade, families to relax and outdoor swimming pools to open. Not that I am going near the cold, cold water in our local park. No, I have other ideas for how our family is going to splash around in warm […]
There’s only one problem with baby showers. Too many of the gifts are for the baby. Below are some of the gifts I buy for new mothers.
Tags: Baby-Shower-Gifts, postpartum-recoveryShare This
What do you know! I think blogging is making me too terse as a writer. Blog posts work best when they’re short and snappy.
I thought, when I wrote the Down There Omnibus, I knew everything there was to know about postpartum hemorrhoids. Nope. Other people manage to write entire books on the subject.
Tags: hemorrhoids, postpartum-recoveryShare […]
I thought everyone used a “bone bowl” when they ate chicken, dropping the skeletal remains of wings, breasts, and drumsticks into a communal dish to keep their plates from being cluttered, that every mother picked through their discards, muttering “There’s still meat on here. Look at all that meat!”, an gnawed on the cartilage, amazed […]
Now that the poll has been fixed, don’t forget to vote in the charity campaign.
Share This
New babies (not to mention toddlers, pre-schoolers, school children, teenagers and college-age children) can be tough on marriages.
Second, third, and further babies are even harder. Anecdotal evidence (OK, the old wives tale) suggests that the more often you get pregnant, the better your body gets at becoming pregnant. It’s the old “pregnancy begets pregnancy” saying.
Tags: […]
I am too overwhelmed to do anything but whine in today’s blog entry. Read on at your own risk.
Tags: motherhood-and-self-esteemShare This
I may have given you the wrong impression about me. Sure, I am trying to give money to a good cause for Mothers’ Day, but I am not all about altruism. Considering that my birthday is in about two weeks and Mothers’ Day is in three, I thought I had better update my Amazon Wish […]
As you may know, I have a history of experimenting on myself. You will also know that I hate using disposable diapers…just not enough to use cloth instead.
Since, this time an experiment could be messy, I thought I would try to benefit from your experience. You know the inserts that go inside cloth diapers […]
This fine piece of real estate is located in area code 623.
This is the sixthhundreth and twenty-third post I have written on this blog. It is my pleasure to use it to announce that the Fifty-first Carnival of Family Life is up and waiting for your reading pleasure at Digital Rich Daily.
Share This
A Child Chosen
A Creative Journal
All Holiday Cafe
Babylune
Baking Delights
Behind The Vines
Blog Fabulous
Brew Ha-Ha
Busy Family Meals
Career and Kids
Chocolate Bytes
Cooking Gadgets
Dating Dames
Declutter It
Foodie Obsessed
GenBetween
Hankering for Yarn
Inside Fatherhood
Inside Motherhood
Jewelry and Beading
Junk Creation
Keeping the Castle
Kettle and Cup
Layers Upon Layers
Macro Cats
Mad Cropper
Marriage Actually
Mom Gadget
Mother Earth's Garden
MyCrimeSpace
Noodles and Rice
Offbeat Homes
One Book Two Book
Our One Heart
Parenting Tweens & Teens
Parents Behaving Badly
Play Library
Psycho for Love
Quilting and Patchwork
Robust Cooking
She Knows Parties
Simply Thrifty
Solo Mother
StampingMad
Supernanny Rules
Tangled Thread
The Food Bowl
Thrifty Mommy
Toolbelt Tips
Tree Hugging Family
Unplugged Living
Widows Quest
Recent Comments