Category: Parenting
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From babytime to tantrums with not a moment to spare!
My kids and I just got back from the snow. We found an amazing place that is an easy drive from Santa Cruz. Really. No, I’m not going to tell you. You’ll tell your friends, and then, well, you know what will happen. My experience with visiting the snow in California was completely confined to…
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Big cats, little cats, wild cats
When I heard that there was a wild cat show at the Rio Theater, I thought about how much I love cats, I thought about how busy we were, and I thought about how there was some incident… Then the publisher of Santa Cruz Parent asked me if I wanted tickets. What can I say?…
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Grey minivan people
Is there anything better in California than a day like today? My sister told me that they were coming to visit (from the East Bay) and that they were planning to go to the beach for low tide. I like an excuse to get me to the beach. Perhaps it’s not this way for your…
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All I Want is a Good Night's Sleep
Right now, as I type, my daughter is awake in the living room. She has made a nest on the couch and she is reading a Franklin book. No matter that she could be reading something more…well…elevated. She likes Franklin right now. It is exactly 38 minutes after her bedtime. Her father is out for…
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They really do grow up…
I’ve been noticing lately that our family has left a whole era behind: the era of the little kid. Yesterday I took my daughter to a wonderful workshop at WaxWorks West. My old friend from my pre-mom years, Daniella Woolf, is a wonderful artist who does encaustic and started a studio with her friends Judy…