A lot of people I’ve talked to express surprise when they hear that I am still nursing my 4 year old son along with my 22 month old daughter. Maybe surprise isn’t the right word. Some express shock. Just the other day I was on the phone with a virtual stranger talking about a freecycle exchange when it came up. The woman was totally disbelieving when I told her I was nursing a 4-year-old, no less that I was also nursing my toddler at the same …

There are two great things in this picture – a picture of my new accomplishment (knitting a tube with a set of 5 double-pointed needles) and a boobie-grab from M, my still-nursing 4 year old. Gotta love a good boobie-grab!
Knitting always makes me nervous. Crocheting? Not so much. In crocheting, if you make a mistake, you just start pulling the yarn and unraveling the stitches until you get back to where it looks nice. Easy. With knitting, I have heard that you can rip it …

Just ’cause something is called a children’s movie doesn’t make it automatically appropriate in my book. There’s a big difference between something like Finding Nemo and Robots, between something that is wholesome entertainment and one that is a needlessly crass. kids-in-mind can help decide whether a movie is appropriate for your kids or not.

A few week back, I wrote here about a report by Consumer Reports on infant carseat failures. I, along with many others, was suspicious about the report. Turns out I was right to be suspicious. Consumer Reports has now withdrawn their infant car seat report. Maybe they should stick to washing machines and leave the carseats to the experts.

We got him pull-ups for night-time – pink trimmed, Dora the Explorer pull-ups. This may well turn him gay – I’ve heard quite reliable reports from all across America that anything remotely feminine will turn a growing boy gay. Considering M’s already had a pink sleeping sac, flowery onesies, a dollhouse, a doll (given to J but appropriated by M), a Hello Kitty dress-up doll, a Hello Kitty blanket, a Hello Kitty backpack, and a Hello Kitty toothbrush, this may well be the point of no return. …