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14 Apr Henry’s top 10 favorite toys

Posted at 20:03h in Family Time, Parenting, Toys 0 Comments

Some of you out there might be headed to a baby shower or gearing up for a birthday party, and so I wanted to share with you Henry's top 10 all time favorite toys. You'll win some major kudos with the kid of your choice...

14 Apr Raffi: My one screen time exception

Posted at 00:45h in Family Time, Parenting 0 Comments

I shielded infant Henry from the wall-to-wall TV screens at Recovery Grill as if they would blast into his brain and rot it on impact. I'd nervously twitch when my parents wanted to FaceTime. The American Association for Pediatrics says on their website, “Television and other...

13 Sep The tragedy bigger than anything

Posted at 15:28h in Bad stuff, Feelings, Food, green, Parenting, Socially responsible, Vegan 0 Comments

I wrote this on September 3 and emailed it to myself. I'm newly vegan, though I have slipped up here and there - I'm trying my best. This piece of writing has been sitting in my inbox for more than a week, just simmering. I...

12 Apr Nothing like a baby laugh

Posted at 01:37h in Feelings, Parenting, Time 0 Comments

There's nothing like a baby laugh to melt away the day's stress. Today was one hell of a day. Just non-stop juggling at work. I got home at 7:30 and was still working via text and email, during dinner; hardly a minute to look the kid...

09 Apr Parenting is just a bunch of letting go

Posted at 01:58h in Feelings, Love, milestones, Parenting, Time 2 Comments

[caption id="attachment_590" align="alignright" width="230"] Kid Henry[/caption] Tonight Henry fell asleep in my arms, nursing before bed in the rocking chair in his bedroom. There's nothing unusual about that. It happens most every night. But tonight. Tonight I looked down at my sleeping baby in my arms and...

27 Feb What to feed the kid

Posted at 16:04h in Food, green, milestones, Parenting, Socially responsible, Vegan 2 Comments

[caption id="attachment_515" align="alignright" width="258"] Henry doing baby-led weaning with some steamed local organic sweet potato[/caption] Man, my head is spinning about what to do with food. For six months we've had it pretty easy with breastfeeding, and now starting solid foods is boggling my mind. Like...

24 Feb We are so far away from where we’re supposed to be

Posted at 20:10h in green, Parenting, Religion, Uncategorized 2 Comments

I had something like a panic attack in the grocery store just now. Let me back up. I went to the Glens Falls Farmer's Market on Saturday for, embarrassingly, the first time in a long while. My problem is that I can't get my act together early...