During my trip last month to Texas, my first meal occurred at a great Tex-Mex restaurant called Mario and Alberto’s. Now, when you live in Dallas (or Austin) and love the Tex Mex as I do, you basically survey the options (eating one or two meals of Tex Mex a day, if necessary for [...]
Hey, Moms! Are your kids watching the Backyardigans on Nick Jr.? I mean, after you have your suzuki violin lessons, homeschooling, basket weaving, fingerpainting, flash card training, Spanish and French coursework, and bread baking, of course! This show is one of the best around, maybe THE best. The music, by Evan [...]
I’ve decided that my word-of-the-day emails are just not cutting it. I mean, sure, it’d be nice to use some of those long words for blogging, but really, who likes reading long words? Besides, what I really want to do is hone my Scrabble skills, at least enough to beat Alicia most of [...]
Last month, I wrote a post and received some great commentary relating to a someone’s kid’s need to pee in the park, or a park’s need for bathrooms, depending on how you look at it. We recently learned that Bainbridge Island’s Waterfront Park is not the only park to be lacking in facilities. [...]
noun:
1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a beginner.
2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
adjective:
1. Pertaining to the letters of the alphabet.
2. Arranged alphabetically.
3. Rudimentary; elementary.
Lorraine Heggessey and executive producer Jeremy Mills adroitly tapped into a national obsession at exactly the right time, presenting the topic in a way that appealed to [...]
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It was morning, a little early. Kid was at the table watercolor painting. Painting her Spongebob picture rapidly changed into just painting her toenails. Then, her toes. Then, the top of her foot. Then, the bottom of her foot. Right, left. (thank you, Ann, for “I Ain’t Gonna Paint [...]
