About a year ago I saw a sign in my area advertising a big consignment sale, being held in a local private school.  Andrew was only about six months old at the time and I was looking to buy a used jumperoo for him.  I went to the sale, apparently too late, because as I pulled up I saw a ...

A cow down in St. Louis, Missouri gave birth to triplets recently. Apparently this is not a common thing and considered rare. The chances of a cow having triplets are one in 100,000, but it happens. Currently the heifers are doing well, the survival rate is very low for triplets so hopefully they...

  Mardi Gras masks! You'll have to pardon this post, because I am ending up the week with a cold and three sick little boys. (The littlest boy was sick over the course of the week, but was he sick with what we've all come down with today or with the last mild cold that passed thr...

Finding a pair of shoes for your baby is hard, even harder if you’ve never shopped for shoes. There are so many things that go through your mind, how do I measure the foot, what if it is too big or small, was my mom right and I shouldn’t ever put shoes on them the first year? Here’...

Week 6: Valentines, Valentines, Valentines:   Katydid, wearing her rose-colored glasses (they actually are rose-tinted, to help with her headaches) looks very Valentine-ish, doesn't she?   Most of the Valentines this year involved large amounts of glitter.  I think this is Pip&...

Sweet, merciful, crap! Just when you think it can't get any worse, they whip out false teeth for kids to get them through those awful Tooth Fairy years! But I'm getting ahead of myself, so let's back up. Yep, that......

  The Gosselin Family - TLC For the 11½ months I was pregnant, I couldn’t get enough of those birthing shows on TV. I watched all sorts – from the heartwarming birthing stories to the women who delivered in bathtubs to the problematic premature births. I suppose I was getting my mind geared up...

Hello Gasmii, here we are again, with children competing like racehorses only with more fecal matter. This week we see the Little Miss Georgia Spirit pageant where pageant officials are planning on seeing girls from "all over the state of......

I have a number of posts I'm working on right now -- ordering seeds, ancient India, weeks 3 and 4, a book review of The Writing Diet by Julia Cameron, a library day post -- but I don't think any of them are going to be finished in a hurry.  So I just thought I'd pop on and le...

TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras is a reality shit show about the creepy and fucked up world of child beauty pageants. These little girls make The Real Housewives look like low-maintenance natural beauties. These kiddies get spray tans, hair weaves and fake toe-nails glued on. By the time they are 12, th...