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Do You Send Notes with Your Child’s Lunch?
Each time I read the Wall Street Journal (which is less rare an occurrence than you might think), I learn something new. Last week, I learned my husband and I were slacking on the lunch making front. Or, more specifically, the lunch note making front. According to the article “To Pack an A-Plus Lunchbox” many parents send something extra in their child’s […]
Bake Sale Recipes for a Good Cause
Looking for some bake sale inspiration or just feeling nostalgic for sweet treats from your childhood? Gretchen Holt-Witt’s Cookies for Kids’ Cancer: Best Bake Sale Cookbook is here, just in time for all those back-to-school sugar bonanzas. When I was little, I was a sucker for anything involving cheesecake. So I was always willing to plunk down a few quarters […]
Are These Shoes Genius or a Complete Horror Show?
One of the things that is both most amazing and most maddening about Middle is that when he fixates on something, he never lets go. He is like a pit bull, or at least what I think pit bulls are supposed to be like, since people describe this sort of I’m-not-letting-go-till-I-get-my-way as acting “like a pit bull.” (Which makes me […]
Heaven Help My Son’s Nursery School Teacher
Or: What do you do when your 4-year-old has much older brothers? Last night Middle was telling me about the short story he read in English class yesterday, and I asked if I could read it. It was “Charles,” by Shirley Jackson. The only Shirley Jackson story I ever remember reading was—of course—“The Lottery,” and I was surprised by how […]
