The longest distance between two points is the path taken by children. This is how boring I am as a parent: I don’t want to fall in the mud. I don’t want to sit on a tree covered with fire…
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Exploring
Posted in Parenting, San Diego, Travel Tagged with: CH, Derek Noakes, expeditions, exploring, kids, number two, parenting
A Sense of Scale
I think I’ve gotten used to being tall. When you are over six feet, as I am just barely, you realize the world is made for people 6-8″ shorter. Working at a counter means hunching over like Quasimodo. Getting anything…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: campfire, camping, camping with kids, car sickness, CH, number two, urinals
Demise of the Pumpkin
“Yes, but the end was extremely sudden.” Extra bonus points for whoever names that quote. Clue at the end. The end was sudden and, evidently, quite violent for our jack o’ lantern. The children got agitated by its sunken features,…
All Things Dead
Bonus points to anyone who can name the movie from which today’s post was taken. Clue: it’s over 25 years old. I love how nature can take whatever you’ve done and make it more interesting. Not to knock Child Harbat’s…
Roxaboxin and the Rise of the Glutards
Let’s start with Roxaboxin. Child Harbat is at the perfect age to write fiction. She hears and absorbs enough real-world information to have the good basis for a story but then mixes in her own thoughts and interpretations, sprinkles with…
Posted in Baking, Products, Writing Tagged with: celiac, CH, cruelty-free, diet, fads, free trade, gluten, intolerance, organic, paleo
Laying In for the Season
I’m a creature molded by my upbringing, my genes, and the long trail of forebears who had a harder life surviving and passing on all they could so I can be alive. One of the vestiges of this pre-programmed history…
Plan Your Costumes Now, Kiddos!
It’s probably already too late to get the supplies for your Halloween costume. Someone else with superior planning skills and costume-planning moxie already snatched up the good stuff. Just take a look at the wigs we found at Goodwill this…
Posted in Parenting, Products, Uncategorized Tagged with: CH, costumes, go-go boots, halloween, number two, parenting, wigs
T-t-t-t-TRAIN COMING!!!
Hang out with some little kids for a while and you’ll realize how amazing EVERYTHING is. Maybe you have trains or trolleys or streetcars or railcars or funiculars or electric buses or rickshaws in your hometown. But have you ever…
Children and Fashion
Alright, here’s the deal: at some point you begin to care how you look. For some this happens at five, others at fifteen, others…well, they’re the ones you see in saggy sweatpants and loose slippers shuffling through Walmart. Child Harbat…
Going Barefoot
Kids have it right because they haven’t enough civilization and experience to do what isn’t natural. Let’s face it, we are animals, in the species timescale just a blink away from striding the plains and bashing each other with clubs.…
