American Idol: watch out! But wait… I’m too old.
Oh, well.
Now that my son sleeps in a big boy bed, rocking before bed has ended. This was his decision, not mine.
But a new routine has started. I sit on the bottom end of his bed and sing 2 sets of ‘Jingle Bell’. [...]

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My husband returned from ApacheCon, a conference about the latest developments with Apache open source software, the Friday before Thanksgiving. He can sometimes be considered a cynic, but was excited by a presentation he saw on [...]

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THANKSGIVING
Thank you for little hands and little toes,
Little fingerprints and a little nose.
Thank you for hair to comb and birthday parties to plan,
Mittens to lose and toy planes to land.
Thank you for family.
Thank you for friends.
Thank you for the autumn leaf colors and [...]

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In keeping with suggestions from online parenting guides, and PBS, and articles in the weekend paper, and even blurbs on the sides of cereal boxes, I decided to do something fun and educational with my 3-year-old son. We [...]

It’s official… The clocks have been turned back.
It’s cold weather time, talk turns to Pilgrims and Native Americans in nursery schools, and Dad is raking leaves today.
I love ‘gaining’ an hour. It used to mean an extra hour of sleep, but now it means an extra hour to get things done or having [...]