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Preventing the Summer Slide: Save your patience, their braincells, and maybe even money on grad school

    I’m writing this post on behalf of Camp Invention, as one of their paid ambassadors. The opinions are my own.  The trash-collecting, upcycling, DIY-ing genes are definitely Husband’s. Seriously, he rescued an old moldy life jacket from a park garbage can yesterday to “use the foam.” Like many of you, I have children at home with me this summer; two children of the school-aged persuasion, who no longer fit (comfortably) together in a pack-and-play, gnawing on my password-protected phone while I sob in the shower. Considering I work at home, and they happen to live… Read More »Preventing the Summer Slide: Save your patience, their braincells, and maybe even money on grad school

    Lullaby Lunacy

      I sing to my kids at bedtime. Let me re-phrase that: I mete out warnings and serve as a physical barrier between my two children in my bed, as I croon behavior management-aborted phrases of three songs–the same three songs–in the same order, every night. The boys employ strict rules around this nightly routine, following in our family tradition of pre-dream-time dictatorship. Singing may not commence until all bedroom lights are turned off, pajamas donned and teeth brushed, and younger brother has planted himself firmly in the crook of my left armpit, older brother in… Read More »Lullaby Lunacy

      Our Spring Break Desperation Inventions! Win a WEEK of FREE Camp Invention!

        This post is part of my Ambassadorship with Camp Invention The children finally returned to school yesterday. We had no travel plans during spring break, opting instead for a “stay-cation” chock full of winter temperatures, and two squirrely Imig boys with too much time on their hands. Spring Break highlights included daily strategy sessions involving the bartering of 20 minutes of outside time for two hours of screen time ala: SITTING ON YOUR DUFF IN THE DRIVEWAY DOESN’T COUNT AS OUTSIDE TIME. YES I REALIZE THAT TECHNICALLY YOU’RE FULFILLING THE REQUIREMENT BY BEING  (AIR QUOTES)… Read More »Our Spring Break Desperation Inventions! Win a WEEK of FREE Camp Invention!

        Spring Break, Then! Spring Break…Now.

          Spring Break Then: The Macarena! Spring Break Now: The Screaming Shrew. Spring Break Then: Boombox on the beach! Spring Break Now: Ant Venom Minecraft tutorials in the kitchen. Spring Break Then: Mai Tai, Baby! Spring Break Now:  Mai Chai, decaf. Spring Break Then: Sleeping, pancakes, tanning! Spring Break Now: Mini-golf bench, karate bench, soccer bench. Spring Break Then: Cute boys at the bar! Spring Break Now: Cute boys in timeout. Spring Break Then: Sarong, flip flops! Spring Break Now: Parka, mud boots. Spring Break Then: Cosmo quizzes! Spring Break Now: Camp forms. Speaking of Camp… Read More »Spring Break, Then! Spring Break…Now.

          10 Reasons I Still Blog

            Two weekends ago, I did a show. Not an LTYM show, which I now know how to do backwards and forwards, but a solo humor show. I combined a selection of live-readings from my blog, with a slide show and a bit of stand-up comedy, for an hour-long presentation at The Natural Parenting Expo.  As we entered the venue, my dad joked that I would serve as the “un-natural parenting” portion of the expo. I shushed him because he unknowingly stole my opening line. I already have his face (with a slighter goatee) so I… Read More »10 Reasons I Still Blog