Category: Parenting

  • Gerber Baby Material?

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    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.

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Preparing for a (Not) Picky Eater

    Preparing for a (Not) Picky Eater

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    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…

  • The Cost of Raising a Child

    The Cost of Raising a Child

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    This week the USDA published its annual report on Expenditures on Children by Families 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 families…