Cookie Cutter Guilt

Let me just start by admitting: I try to impress 4-year olds. A couple of weeks ago we hosted one of those kids who makes preschool look like graduate school. She’s well-behaved and articulate — a great little role model for my, um, independent three-year old. So of course I decided that on our first playdate [...]… Continue

Blackalicious

Fern got this cute book on our last vacation -- Pinkalicious -- about a girl who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns, well, pink. Except she couldn't leave it at that -- Blackalicious beckoned.

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I Wanna Make Banana Love

Fern is a crazy cook (see "cranberries, pickled") and today, schooled me in the right way to make a Banana Bread Pie.… Continue

Princess Frida

Let’s talk about lying to our children. No, I’m talking about how Fern thinks that Frida Kahlo is one of the Disney princesses, how Dora is in reality young Frida, and her brother Diego is Diego Rivera. Or how she says “This means ‘I love you’ in sign language” while making the universal bulls-horns sign for “cuckold.” [...]… Continue

Girl Fight!

I was secretly glad the shop ladies were arguing. Not because I’m one of those freaks who likes to watch conflict; in fact, I usually go out of my way to avoid it. But today we were in a cute store with piles of kid clothes and toys, the kind of store known in our [...]… Continue