Category: Parenting
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There's a fungus amongus!
One of the things I love to do with this blog is point other parents toward really great resources and events in our community. Here is one that I can’t speak more highly of: The annual Santa Cruz Fungus Fair sponsored by the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz. The fungus fair celebrates something about the…
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Getting rid of
I was halfway through emptying out the front hall closet when my mother-in-law called. “What are you up to?” “I’m going on a cleaning binge! Right now, I’m cleaning out the front closet. I actually don’t think I’ve cleaned it out since we moved here.” (That was going on 14 years ago.) “Oh, I love…
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Violent trailers at kids' movies have got to stop!
Yesterday we went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox at the 41st Avenue Theater. The movie was great, probably a bit much for the younger set (in my opinion), but perfect for the kids I went with, aged 7 to 10. The only thing that made me cringe was their use of “cuss” for the obvious…
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Mr. Know-it-all
Before we had kids, my husband used to have a standard joke that he needed to get a business card that said “Mr. Know-it-all.” He has one of those encyclopedic brains, and he reads voraciously. So even though we don’t watch TV or listen to most popular music, if I say, “who is that person…
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Happy Chanukah!
When my husband and I were talking about having a baby, one of the things he said that was important to him was raising our kids Jewish. I said, “That’s fine with me, but what does that mean to you?” Eleven years later, we’re still working on the answer to that question. My husband, like…