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I’ve been looking at the forecast for Halloween and it’s not looking good. Around here, it will be a high of 39 and a low of 24, with both rain and snow expected that day. Thankfully, we were able to wear our costumes this weekend for an event because I’m not sure how our afternoon […]

The most fun day of the year is almost here! Since there isn’t really door to door trick-or-treating here, we will be doing a car caravan of friends’ houses ending with a Halloween party for kids and adults. Since Charlie is going as Harry Potter and Olive will be a witch, they said that I […]

I’m now deep into my third trimester and feeling ginormous. Despite being pregnant three times, I don’t actually own any maternity clothes! During my first pregnancy, I purchased one pair of maternity jeans which seemed to fit super weird, so I promptly returned it. I didn’t really want to buy maternity clothing because it’s generally expensive […]

I was definitely a worry wart first time mom. Having had severe anxiety for most of my life (and to this day), that came as no surprise to me. But the older my kids get, the more lax I get. But parenting is also much more lax in the Philippines where I live now than […]

Charlie and Olive had their own rooms in the US, but have shared a room since we moved to the Philippines 4 years ago. A year ago they got their own rooms, but they continued to sleep in the same room… with me. We’ve spent so much time together the past 4 years and travel […]

We’re going trick or treating this weekend (on the 26th) and then again on the 31st, so we are in full on Halloween mode! Here are some interesting parenting links from around the web this week! H E A L T H California’s first surgeon general: Screen every student for childhood trauma via NBC News […]

It’s amazing how much parenting has changed in just one generation. I’m from the last generation to grow up with an analog childhood and a digital adulthood, and you probably are too. When I was a kid, everyone played outside until the sun set without any adult supervision. Perhaps it was the internet that changed […]