A Natural Scientist

 As you have doubtless heard by now, public schools have just- six days before school was to start!- decided to go all-online for nine weeks...

... no time to think. This week and next week are Mommy Camp, i.e. I must entertain three children for about eleven hours a day. (If I do ...

With respect to the previously mentioned diagram : I don't think one's job necessarily can or should fulfil all the desirable qualit...

Dear Readers, there have been THINGS going on. (I have three small children.  There are always THINGS, frankly.) I weaned Sweetpea two m...

My older children are upstairs trying to murder each other and Sweetpea has taken to climbing on things and then walking off the edge .  So!...

Lately, while nursing the baby (ENDLESSLY) I've been reading Captain Awkward and, aside from giving me a Serious Complex about my paren...

Have you ever noticed that the more children you have, the more travel becomes like unto packing up a circus, tent and all?  I think we migh...

Dr. S is at a conference... for a week.  Naturally, I went and stayed with my mama for three days. Also naturally, my children didn't ge...

I stepped on one of our hazelnut twigs (tree-to-be) and another died in the exceptionally cold winter.  BAH.   The mastitis is maybe... m...

Somehow, parenting with Sweetpea around - now that I can sleep some of the time, and have recovered most of my physical health - feels a lit...

... and don't really mind. Every few weeks, I drag Tatoe to elementary school with me and spend an hour coaxing kindergarteners to pra...

NO, I do not want to come for the Halloween Parade/ help with art class/ show up at school while my child is there.  I want him to be elsewh...

... that arranging-things details are spilling out of my ears. I was, at one time, able to a) run my own multi-year, multi-project researc...

12:00 Preschool pickup.  Bug throws a tantrum, as usual, and we stand outside the car for ten minutes until he stops waving his arms around ...

This past February, we decided we were moving.  We started packing up and getting ready to sell our house and move almost a thousand miles. ...

Bug likes to say to me and to Tatoe, "I love you.  Do you love me?"  And I say "Yes, buddy, of course I love you lots and lot...

Let me start by saying that I have pretty much read all the helpful books ever  about sibling rivalry.  They all make the assumption that yo...

I did not do my spouse bodily harm.  I did toss the children at him Monday evening and go to the gym.  When I came home they were still sh...

"Bug is being pretty intolerable." "Can you just be more patient with him?" "Can I lock myself in a closet instea...

The combination of No Preschool and No Friends is hellacious.  I am so bored.  And lonely.  And bored.  And, actually, really unhappy.  If ...