Family Time

05 Nov Snapshot of the day

Posted at 02:59h in Family, Time, Uncategorized, Vegan, Working Mom 0 Comments

6:00 a.m. Woke up and had coffee in bed thanks to my wonderful husband. Henry was the perfect boy and read books in his crib while I showered and got ready in my businesslady outfit and darker lipstick than made sense in daylight. Then I brought...

20 Oct The Switch Witch saves Halloween!

Posted at 16:56h in Family, Holidays, Parenting, Socially responsible, Toys, Vegan 0 Comments

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="267"] The Switch Witch tote bag, just in time for trick-or-treating![/caption] Last year, Halloween was easy. We took baby Henry trick-or-treating on our street in upstate New York, and my husband and I ate all the candy! Henry was only one year old, and...

14 Oct Perfect boy

Posted at 01:26h in Feelings, Love, Parenting 0 Comments

Henry's so good. It doesn't make for funny stories so I don't often write about how good he is in my Family Time column, but he's really just so good. Today after dinner as I was putzing in the kitchen, I heard him playing the slide...

09 Oct No thank you

Posted at 16:01h in Discipline, Family Time, Parenting 0 Comments

I envy the calm, lilting tone I hear some mothers use. “No thank you!” they recite, gently guiding their child away from climbing the radiator around the perimeter of the children's room at the library that all kids gravitate toward. “We'll get them at the patch...

25 Sep Talkin’ bout my generation

Posted at 20:51h in Discipline, Family Time, Generations, Parenting 0 Comments

Born in 1982, I'm on the cusp between Generation X and the Milliennials, which TIME Magazine recently called the “Me Me Me” generation of lazy, entitled narcissists. Raised by hippies, I did grow up in the era of Mr. Rogers, talking about my feelings. I knew...

11 Sep In the face of tantrums

Posted at 21:01h in Discipline, Family Time, Parenting 0 Comments

My parents used to sing the Rolling Stones song, “You can't always get what you want,” to me when I was little, and I hated it with a fiery passion. I get where they were coming from now that I'm parenting a two-year-old, though. In the...

22 Aug Terrible Two

Posted at 20:31h in Family, Family Time, Love, milestones, Time 0 Comments

My son Henry turned two on August 22. On the eve of his first birthday, I went through his tiny baby clothes and heaved profound guttural sobs over the loss of my little newborn son. I remember him seeming so big compared to his first onesies, and...