Today, Landon turns four-years-old. I’m sitting here at 4:30am, looking at a pile of presents awaiting his wakening…wooden construction trucks and a crane set…a little train from his baby brother, and a Ken doll from his big sister. (I’ll have to explain that one in another post.)
Half of the wrapped presents…he’s already seen. He stole [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 31, 2008
Happy Birthday, Halloween Baby!
October 28, 2008
When the Kid Wants to Dress Himself…
What do you do when your kid wants to wear jeans that sag well below his butt, t-shirts with vulgar words and head wear that smacks of gang paraphernalia?
No idea. Don’t ask me. My kids are still into Spiderman, Princesses and Elmo.
Our almost four-year-old (he turns four on Halloween…yeah!!!) has gotten quite good at dressing [...]
October 25, 2008
There’s a Special Place in Hell for Women Who Don’t Help Each Other
I caught the tail end of an interview with Madeleine Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelova) on NPR last night.
Wow, is she a fascinating woman. Born in Czechoslovakia, and the granddaughter of three men and women who were killed in the Holocaust, she ultimated immigrated to the United States with her parents at age eleven, in [...]
October 24, 2008
Spanking, as a Form of Discipline?
I had responded to a Beyond PR query this week in which two families were being sought out to participate in a 20th Century Fox / Fox News segment on spanking: one family was to be in favor of spanking and the other against. I had hoped to represent the side of “no spanking.” [...]
