Category Archives: Adventures in Parenting

On healing rain, The Smiths, and still being emo at 30

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

I was curled on my side on my bed, the lights off, the covers over my head. It was five in the afternoon on a dismal Friday a couple weeks ago, and I had just gotten home from work. My … Continue reading →

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Joining the Glasses Club

Posted on March 21, 2012 by
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The Myth of Parental Protection, or Why my daughter will read Dracula

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

I came across an article on Geekmom today that got all my book-loving, free speech hackles up. In the article, Geekmom Suzanne Lezear responds to a recent article by Meghan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal about a mom who … Continue reading →

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That Time My Kid Was More Athletic than Yours

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

As you may know, Yosi has attended Awana Cubbies at a local church this year for the first time. We had mixed feelings before she started in September, but she loves it and we get a free date night every … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: The Moments that Make Parenting Totally Worth It

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

I wrote in a Top Tuesday post a few weeks ago about the hardest parts of being a parent, and I want to balance that today by listing some of the things that make the whole wrestling match worth it. The … Continue reading →

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Muncie Children’s Museum

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

The first Saturday after New Year’s Lyndie and I took Yoselin to the Muncie Children’s Museum in Muncie, Indiana. Our membership to Boonshoft got us in free and while the Muncie museum is definitely smaller and less polished than Boonshoft … Continue reading →

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Her voice is neither still nor small

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

Sunday, before church, I made a sincere effort to spend some time in Bible reading and prayer. I made it about halfway through the first sentence of the Book of Common Prayer’s collect for that day before my daughter started asking … Continue reading →

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Gingerbread

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

In December Lyndie bought a gingerbread house kit for Yosi, and we spent a Saturday afternoon at the dining room table assembling it. Initially the idea of a using a prefab kit sounded like the death of imagination to me, … Continue reading →

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Stop the Insanity!

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

There are a number of parents, Lyndie and I included, who feel that our culture’s concern for child safety has passed from being helpful to being absurd. It seems like every week there is a news story of a parent … Continue reading →

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Snow Angel

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

My three year old daughter’s favorite song is about death and war. I’m not sure how it happened, but somehow my daughter fell in love with Over the Rhine’s Snow Angel off their Christmas album of the same name. Every … Continue reading →

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