Kids are little petri dishes. Adorable little petri dishes, but petri dishes nonetheless. Despite our best efforts to keep them healthy—and as you can see in this other recent post, I really, really do try to keep them healthy—they get sick. It happens. It’s a normal part of life, and it helps their immune systems […]
Parenting: Irony, Puke and Silver Linings
Less than an hour after I hit “publish” on a post about unexpectedly perfect parenting days, my daughter started puking. And she kept puking for the rest of the night. I got maybe two hours of sleep, and for a full 24 hours, our apartment reeked of an unholy combination of […]
Why My Son's Cold Turned Me Into a Crazy Lunatic
When a 3-year-old is sick, it sucks. You’re alternately snuggling with a sad-looking child, wiping an eternally runny nose, dealing with more emotional instability than usual, and trying to contain him from destroying your living room with a makeshift lightsaber. I thought I knew how hard it was, but I was […]