Watching TV has always been a fall-back for me. When you think you have no energy to do anything, the chores are done, you can sink back into the couch and watch TV for an hour before going to bed. …
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The Joy of Playing Games
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: computer games, disc golf, gaming, indiana jones, playstation 3, playstation move, television, toddlers
No Cake for You!
What do you do with all the leftover cake and cupcakes from a birthday party? You eat them in a weeklong slog through dessert every night. On Monday night Toddler Harbat was well aware that there was leftover cake just…
Birthday Girl
Roughly once per day for the last few months Toddler Harbat has asked about her birthday. Each time we asked about a theme, it varied from “Pony Princess” to “Princess Pony”. No way was I dressing up in a full-sized…
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Random Bags and Coming Home
Two quick thoughts on parenting. One: be prepared for random items in unexpected places. Last night I found on the couch a mesh bag filled with two miniature pumpkins, a glittery smiley face sticker, and several small ficus berries. Knowing…
Music for Children
Even before Toddler Harbat was born we began to get music for children. Some had familiar nursery rhymes yelled out over a background of synthesized strings. One was original compositions by a woman with an average voice, a guitar, and…
Taco Tuesday
New tradition begun this week: Taco Tuesday. A weekday food ritual reminds me of Pizza Friday in elementary school, when our white rectangular sytrofoam trays got a white rectangular Styrofoam pizza plopped on it. Each pizza looked exactly the same,…
Urgent Hair Update!
Toddler Harbat’s hair over the last three years has been a definite conversation starter among strangers. Recently it’s undergone an amazing growth spurt, but just out the top. Teens these days with a surplus of haute contempt, black fingernail polish,…
Greatest Achievement
Before I was a parent I’d hear people say that their greatest achievement was raising a child. This always struck me as pathetic, that you would define yourself through someone else. Vicarious achievement has never been my goal as a…
Dressing Up
I have many, let’s call them, “eccentricities”. One is that I like to dress up. As Fernando Lamas says, “It is better to look good than to feel good,” and I take that a step further. When you look good…
