Mind Flush

G: "It's a shame we can't go to the neighbor's Mardi Gras party." J: "Yeah. With Liza's tendency to pull u...

... that my daughter's first curse word, uttered at the tender age of 21 months, 1 day, was "shit." And she said it because h...

Well, Liza is enthusiastic about snuggling in it, and playing hide-and-seekunder the covers, and jumping on it, and using it to peek out the...

... the grocery store is completely sold out of milk, bread, and toilet paper, thanks to the ENORMOUS snowfall we received today. You notice...

G, breaking an egg into a bowl: "Oh, I forgot to tell you. Yesterday when I was making your cheesecake, I used an egg that had somethi...

When we bought a toddler-sized plastic potty a few months ago, Liza initially showed some interest , then a few days later ignored it comple...

When I got the invitation to go to a friend's baby shower up in Cleveland, I immediately saw it as an opportunity to finally spend more ...

Art Buchwald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author, died Wednesday after having been ill for several years. He'd withdrawn fro...

I was just flipping through the list of videos I've posted on YouTube, and while most of my movies have only been viewed a couple of doz...

Picture a family eating at Chick Fil A, toddler happily eating her fruit cup and chicken nuggets, mom with a sandwich and some fries she...

The kid's starting to earn her keep - I put her to work yesterday when I was making pizza, and she actually helped. Sorta. Okay, she ate...

I've been in the zone, trying to finish a sweater, so that I can move on to all the other projects that sound like much more fun than so...

Here's an updated list of what I actually managed to do ... things in italics at least got started, and bold italics got finished. Get a...

If you either a) don't care a fig about woodworking, or b) are easily offended by mature language, please stop reading now. Seriously, g...

See, I'd get much more done around here if I'd just turn off the computer and go to bed. Maybe tomorrow ...

Thanks to the wonders of birth control pill dispensers with little numbers on the slots, I've noticed that my instances of "Oh, I w...

Yesterday marked the beginning of the end for Liza's crib. While she's never actually made an escape attempt, Liza is now tall enoug...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_re_us/shopping_sabbatical As much as I admire the intent of this idea, I just don't think I...

Baby Einstein videos and a wicked sense of determination to finish a sweater for myself before spring.