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Normal is a setting on your dryer: A dad’s cancer, a mom’s new role & the new normal
September 8, 2010 – 7:00 am | 8 Comments

What is “normal” and why do we always seem to be looking for it? It makes sense that some would seek predictability once they start a family, but is “normalcy” really something we can attain?
“I can’t wait to have a normal life,” is exactly what I was thinking three years ago in St. Louis, when [...]

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Nutcracker Giveaway Tickets Found Here!
December 3, 2007 – 12:00 am | 17 Comments

I am not a dancer. I have never been a dancer and I will never be a dancer.
I had no particular dance aspirations for my 3-year-old daughter Hadley but recently enrolled her in a dance class taught my national-award-winning friend, Karla Call. I did this for no other purpose than to give her [...]

Holiday Kid Pics!
December 1, 2007 – 12:10 am | Comments Off

Congratulations to Sara Lilly, winner of our Baby Candy onsie contest!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and we want your Santa-fearing, Hanukkah-celebrating, gingerbread-house decorating, snow-playing or gift-relishing pictures. Help us build our Kid Holiday Pics section by sharing your pictures (past and present) of your little elves.
There will, of course, [...]

Desperately Seeking Presents That Won’t Be Recalled in 6 Months… and Some Holiday Spirit
November 27, 2007 – 12:45 am | 18 Comments

Anyone else sick of sorting through the bin and taking toys away from their children because of safety concerns? My favorite was the Aqua Dots fiasco, where the little pellets were filled with the date rape drug GHB. How does a DATE RAPE drug get into our toys? I mean, a Stoli martini maybe… but [...]

Black Friday’s “Blowout”
November 26, 2007 – 12:00 am | 21 Comments

I am unsure how Black Friday even got started. It was probably some raging psychopath who thought it would be fun to use bargain hunters and desperate toy-seeking parents as puppets. Plan a shopping spree in the middle of the night after people have devoured inordinate amounts of sleep-inducing hormones from their turkey? Sounds [...]