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This is my first, and possibly only, summer staying at home with my daughter, 5-year-old Snowy. I plan to take full advantage of it, and have a lot of plans for things for Snowy and I to do together. I plan to write regular weekly posts on what we did during that week so you […]

We took Charlie for his first eye exam when he was 4-years-old, and the optometrist told us that glasses would be in his near future. Shortly thereafter in kindergarten when Charlie got a vision test in school, they sent home a letter asking us to take him to an optometrist. He got his first pair […]

“Mommy needs a drink.” “It’s wine o clock.” At least where I look, mainly online but also something I’ve heard in everyday life, mommy drinking culture is pervasive. Wine and coffee are the getting-through-it arsenal of many moms everywhere. And honestly, there’s very little wrong with this. The point of my post is not at […]

We leave Los Angeles tomorrow after a 3 week stay. As always, the time flies by too quickly. I don’t want to live in Los Angeles, but I do want my kids and my parents to be able to spend as much time together as possible. Life is so short. Here are some interesting parenting […]

Over Memorial Day weekend, we celebrated the girls’ third birthday with a party at our home. Given that my biggest bonding time with the girls are our moments reading together, I’ve stuck with a children’s book classic for all of their birthday parties so far. Their first birthday party was in the theme of Pat […]

I feel like I just wrote our last post about how the Snowflake family’s life was changing and we were navigating that change. Back then–I think it was back in February–Mr. Snowflake went back to work after a few months of being a stay-at-home dad, and we became a two-working-parent family. A lot has happened […]

To borrow an acronym I first saw on reddit…. TLDR: I Concur. The article title is Having a Library or Café Down the Block Could Change Your Life and it’s exactly what I have felt this season. For us, it’s a cafe. I could definitely see a library filling that role too since the ones I’ve […]