Preschool Guts…
This post is important for me to write as it involves almost not listening to my intuition, almost letting exhaustion run my mind instead of logic (not that logic isn’t a fair weather friend of mine),...
View ArticlePardon My Absence…
Who knew the end of the year could be jam-packed with so many changes? New dog, preschool (!!!), Thanksgiving at our house—well, that happened last year, too. I guess I mean: HOLIDAY SEASON...
View ArticleBlog Break: More Christmas…
I don’t know about your house, but THESE are the kind of Christmas shenanigans going on around here: Not to mention early Christmas presents from Semi-Secret Santa Mommies: Or Christmas caroling to the...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Looking forward to 2011! May all of our best dreams come true. PB WRITES
View Article2011!!!
It’s a new year. What a concept! How marvelous to start afresh with resolutions carefully typed into Word, resolutions sought with open mind and heart in (extremely) rare moments of domicile privacy,...
View ArticleResolved…
1. Pay closer attention to patience and being in the moment with all things concerning my son. 2. Lift my eyes up from the dishwater and enjoy myself. Lifting my eyes up from the DISHWASHER would be...
View ArticleOn Play…
I’ve been thinking a lot about “play” lately and how much I do, or don’t, engage in it with my son. Reading, The Last Child In The Woods and Playful Parenting has me worrying about the last time T and...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day
Despite being given a hint of grief from one of T’s preschool teachers because I failed in my two attempts at making jello hearts over the weekend (I even bought silicon molds, then when that fell...
View ArticleFever…
I’d forgotten how alarming fevers can be. It’s been awhile since my son’s head felt so hot. After changing him from the stifling footed-pj’s into cooler wear, taking his temperature and placing a cold...
View ArticleBlog Break: Tide Pools
As I was saying, It was an amazing minus tide late Friday afternoon in Santa Barbara, coinciding with (or because of?) the Super Moon. I forgot my camera, but my sister had her phone and all its very...
View ArticleEaster, 2011 (With Sneezes)…
It all started with the Easter Egg Tree. We painted/colored it and little accompanying eggs and added a large decorative egg and foam bunnies. We also made foam bunnies to send to relatives and T...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day, 2011…
The power and beauty of art. PB Writes The Website Of PB Rippey
View ArticleKitten, O Kitten…
Last Mother’s Day I received a pet from my lovely husband. Last year, I was more sleepless than I am these days. That beautiful thing called preschool hadn’t started for us yet. 5:00a.m. wakings were...
View ArticleWhen I’m Sick…
This has been a rocky late Winter, early Spring when it comes to health. My Facebook wall is filled with many mommy tales of recurring colds, coughs that last a month and (arrrgh!) pneumonia. In my...
View ArticleOn Toys…
It took a while getting here—praise all that is holy—but we reached this phase: When I tell my son we are going to a store he immediately tells me there will be toys there and that he will be taking...
View ArticleThe Baby Blessing
WARNING: THIS POST STOLEN FROM PB WRITES! REPETITION IN PROGRESS! ONLY THE PICTURES ARE DIFFERENT! I’M TIRED! So the baby blessing took place in my mothers faintly overgrown backyard, guests heads...
View ArticleI Won The Pans!
So Carmageddon may be gearing up right now in hot old Los Angeles, but who cares? I WON PANS! A set of All Clad stainless steelers. How did you do it, PB? you ask. I entered the Pioneer Woman contest...
View ArticleThe Magic Of Cousins
And now: It’s August, in case you hadn’t noticed, or, like me, are mentally still in early Spring—although the heat makes it hard not to notice something summerish is going on in a big, uncomfortable...
View ArticleSea World Highlights
The welcome seals. They were very serious about receiving fish from onlookers. The Sea World workout in the Sesame Street area. A wonderful place for families—and dads who didn’t think they were going...
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