This weekend I’m running the Seattle Rock n’ Roll half marathon with a group of dear friends, including Lani, my birthday twin, who is flying out from Nashville. Usually a week away from a race, I’m freaking out if I’m not running my requisite short runs and I’m getting very nervous about my time. Not [...]
My eleven year old son did not want to go see Mr. Popper’s Penguins last week with his younger sisters. He was afraid it wouldn’t be cool enough and what he really wanted to see was Thor. But after bribing him with a huge bag of never-ending popcorn, it turned out that the bribe wasn’t [...]
As Sam barrels toward his 11th birthday, it is very clear to me that the tween years are upon us in a seriously big way. It is also quite clear that parenting our tween is nothing like parenting our little boy, or our baby, or actually anything like anything we’ve ever parented our imagined ourselves [...]
You loved the book as a kid (c’mon, you read it, right???), so be one of the first to see the movie and expose your kids to the classics from days long ago… (Okay, the whole 40 thing is starting to hit me.) I loved penguins after reading this book and can’t wait to see [...]
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