Posts under ‘Parenthood’

If you haven’t listened to “This American Life,” the weekly National Public Radio show that examines and illuminates various aspects of our lives and culture, you’re really missing out. The good news is, all the shows can be streamed for free on their website. They’ve been around since 1995, so if you do a search [...]

Well, there’s no denying that we’re grown-ups anymore. Before Pooky was born, even though I was a married, home-and-car-owning, rapidly-approaching-30, working stiff, I could still kinda, sorta convince myself that I hadn’t yet reached adulthood; that I still had more of my pre-adult life to live. Now, there’s no getting around it. This is it. [...]

One of my favorite movies as a kid was called The Last Starfighter, a sci-fi flick about a kid who is recruited to become a Starfighter after mastering an arcade game that was planted on earth by an intergalactic army. To facilitate communication between the various alien races, the Starfighters were all fitted with little [...]

Agreeing on a name for Pooky was difficult, but it sure was fun (Pooky is not her real name). For some reason, we got quite a kick out of thinking up ridiculous names for her. Or, maybe I got a kick out of it while May put up with it. Either way, I enjoyed it [...]

We’ve been trying to make it work out financially so that I can continue to stay at home with Pooky. Well, it’s the end of the year, and my web development business has been slow, and I haven’t had the time or energy to put in the marketing efforts into it that’s needed. I’ve been [...]

This month’s Pooky Prize (which, by the way, you can enter to win by signing up for the mailing list on the right), reminded me of how much I look forward to Pooky being out of diapers. If I needed another reminder, I got one yesterday when I had to deal with the world’s greatest [...]

Lexie Barnes is the mastermind behind the hip and stylish women’s line of bags that bear her name. Mommies know and love her line of diaper bags for their beauty as well as functionality. The Lexie Barnes line also includes knitting, travel, and laptop bags.
Lexie lives in western Massachusetts and is the mother of [...]

Dr. Steven Parker, who runs the (darn good) pediatrics blog on WebMD, brought up the issue of parents spying on their kids a while back in a couple of posts (post 1, post 2). He doesn’t cover anything especially new, but he sums up a lot of the issues surrounding this topic concisely and intelligently [...]

I’ve been receiving a lot of spam lately. No, I don’t mean spam-in-a-can spam. I’m referring to spam-in-my-mailbox-everyday-and-I-hate-it spam. Although this doesn’t initially appear to have much to do with babies or parenting, I feel I can rant about it here because it’s really starting to take a lot of my time to go through [...]

If you can’t stand talking about baby poo, you might not want to read this.
I remember reading in a few places that babies who are breastfed don’t have smelly poo. Well, when Pooky’s poo turned from that tarry, black substance that babies initially produce into the watery, yellow poo, it certainly wasn’t odorless. I thought [...]