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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 QOTD

Him: So I am getting dressed, put on dockers, red sweater. Nine year old comes over, doing up his tie on his starched white shirt and says, “Are you wearing that to work?”

I say yes.

He goes, “Embarrassing.” and walks away doing his tie.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010 Family, Momversation

Marie, this one goes out to you! And to little Hugo, of course.

I want to know what you do when someone else’s kid gets hurt on your watch. That’s right, me. The clumsy one, the one with tattered insurance cards, the one to whom nurses wave at the local ER.

Has another person’s child been hurt on your watch?  How did you feel, and how did the other parent react?  Join the Momversation by commenting in a related forum:

• What do you do when others don’t follow your rules?
• Funniest kid injury story?

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 Family

I met with a Realtor yesterday. Time to start boxing up the books. We’re selling up.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 Family

I’ve been working with Quaker Oats—not literally working with the oats, I’m not much of a sculptor—to help support the Share Our Strength charity, which is working to end childhood hunger in America. Some of my favorite bloggers are participating as well (yes, we are being compensated, and as you know I only accept projects I believe in supporting) and I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with. They had some pretty big events and challenges coming up and Quaker helped them create some yummy concoctions to anchor tummies in advance. Seriously, people, there are a lot of things I never thought of putting in oatmeal that sounds awesome. The one they created for me? I could have predicted some of it but there are a couple twists I never would have considered and now I’m drooling over them.

I encourage all of you to “CREATE YOUR DAY” by going to WWW.QUAKEROATS.COM/CREATEYOURDAY and discovering an oatmeal creation that will best help you tackle the day that lies ahead. When you do, come back and tell me about it in a comment. I need all the ideas I can get, and have already spent more time than I’ll admit playing on the site. *cough*

For every bowl of oatmeal created on this site, GoodBite.com & Quaker will donate $1.00 to “Share Our Strength”, a charity dedicated to ending childhood hunger, up to $25,000. That’s a lofty goal, but with your help we can do it.  $25,000 will go a long way to helping Share Our Strength continue their important work, and will add to the Great Karma Bucket in the Sky. We’ve all benefited at one time or another from others’ generosity, and might offer this as a reminder to the Universe that we’re grateful and willing to share with others.

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Friday, January 29, 2010 Family, Momversation

Your child walked at 5 months?  Great!  He said his first word when he was barely out of the womb?  Super!

What do you think?  Is it important to push your children to reach developmental milestones?  Or should we all just take a giant chill pill?  Join the Momversation by commenting on a related forum:

• Boys and the gun thing, ugh.
• My child and his tantrums