Parenting
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Gerber Baby Material?
Lots of people have told us Nora looks like the Gerber baby and we have even been approached at the mall to see if we had considered a modeling career for her. All of that’s nice to hear, but we’ve never seriously thought about submitting her photo for anything.Until now.
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Cloth Diapers, Part II
In case you missed it, yesterday was part one of my cloth diapering discussion, where I addressed why we cloth diaper, what the initial set up looks like, diapering the first 6-8 months, and how cloth diapers impact laundry. The whole post can be read here. Today, I’ll be talking about all the diapers we’ve…
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Cloth Diapers, Part I
I’ve had quite a few people ask me recently what diapers we use, so I thought it would make a great post topic – especially because the answer to that question is more complicated than one might think! Due to length, this is going to be a two part post, today and tomorrow. But first,…
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Nora, the Prison Guard
If you believe Erica Jong, this:is my 18 (21…25…?) year prison sentence. In case you missed it, in The Wall Street Journal ‘s “Saturday Essay” last weekend, Jong wrote about the evils of attachment and green parenting: You wear your baby, sleep with her and attune yourself totally to her needs. […] Add to this…
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Preparing for a (Not) Picky Eater
Thursday is CSA pick-up day and we finally had proof of the existence of summer: a surprisingly heavy bag out of the cooler at Annye’s. So heavy I was impatient to look inside; I couldn’t even wait to get home before untying the knot and rooting through our treasures. In addition to the standard fare…
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The Cost of Raising a Child
This week the USDA published its annual report on Expenditures on Children by Families [PDF] and the numbers are shocking – to me at least. It costs an average middle-income American family $222,360 to raise a child from birth to 18. Depending on age of the child, annual expenses ranged from $8,330 to $9,450 for…