Recent Posts Tagged With 'parenting'

• The book of revelations, Christmas edition

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 06:14 in parenting

  Hey it’s the first full day of Christmas vacation here at Casa de Cardiogirl. Yesterday was just a preview — school until high noon. Now prior to yesterday morning I was mentally patting myself on the back. I can’t say I turned Chr...

• There may be a bunch of ways to skin a cat but in the end you still have a gristly feline minus a fur coat

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 05:41 in parenting, Observations, things that mystify me

  I’m back to complaining about the laundry. Yes, I’ve written about my hatred of laundry many times over. And yet there’s always more blood for me to squeeze from that rock (or turnip depending on which phrase you use.) It’s p...

• The torch is lit, let the games begin!

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 06:35 in relationships, parenting

  I am jacked. Why, you ask? I’ll tell you why. I am on the cusp of Fun For The Rest of the Summer. My tabletop foosball table is packaged up on a truck somewhere in the US trundling its way to my dining room table. Remember foosball? It’s ...

• If only I had a walkie-talkie

  Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 06:03 in parenting

  Sweep the Leg, man. I finally had two of my kids’ friends over yesterday and it was (pauses, searches for the right word) taxing. Why do girls have such a short attention span? Gah, they spent about six and half minutes on each activity before ...

• No matter who she belongs to, she’s turning that mother out

  Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 05:34 in parenting, Observations

  I’ve been focusing on bikes this last week because our middle kid is learning how to tear it up on two wheels. I have to jump into the side note immediately today because it won’t be relevant in another paragraph or so and I know you want...

• I don’t want a pet, I have kids

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 06:08 in parenting

  My kid is jonesin’ for a pet like no one’s business. I have no idea why this pet fixation has occurred, but it’s here and like Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction” it will not be ignored. I’m sure I mentioned, ad naus...

• How not to tell your kids about the birds and the bees

  Posted on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 at 05:35 in humor, parenting

  We at Cardiogirl Manor are approaching that super sticky topic of where babies come from. And when I say we, I mean me. Mr. C seems to be conspicuously absent when these questions come up. I don’t know if Katie plans it that way or not. But he...

• You can call me Cardiogirl, MD now that I can write fake prescriptions

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 07:31 in humor, parenting, medical

  I may have mentioned I’m fascinated by all things medical. I don’t know why that is, but it is. So I was over the moon when my 9-year-old mentioned she wanted the Nintendo DS Imagine: Family Doctor game for her birthday. Um, a game that ...

• Ten things I’ve learned about potty training

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 05:24 in parenting, underwear, potty training, book of questions, biz detergent, spray n wash

  Potty training is one of those things that people routinely lie about. I don’t have absolute proof of that but I just know it to be true down to my bones. No one really talks about the nuts and bolts of potty training. So I feel the need to p...

• Turns out it was a win-win afterall

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 06:07 in parenting

  We’ve been talking about booster seats here at Cardiogirl Manor — me and my almost nine-year-old. She’s 4 feet 6 inches tall now. Damn she’s only 14.5 inches shorter than me. Uh oh. Anyway, Michigan law says children under the...

• I’ve found inspiration from an animated rat

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 05:16 in relationships, parenting

  I’m not one for cooking. Never have been and I’m not sure if I ever will be. My mother didn’t cook but my mother-in-law does and when we visit I do watch her as if I am watching Food Network. She doesn’t say, “Yummo!R...

• She might be the next Miss America

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 05:24 in parenting, Observations

  If you have kids in school, you are probably bombarded with a paper trail of school work. Obviously that’s a good gauge on what’s being taught at school and how well your kid is doing. And as the kids grow older the paper trail grows as w...

• Do you have a long term plan? I don’t.

  Posted on Thursday November 6th, 2008 at 05:28 in parenting, Introspective

  I really never thought I would be a parent. Ever. My biological clock was digital for the longest time. No alarm set, just silently marking off the time. But here I am three kids later, making it through each day. It’s amazing to me, truly, to ...

• I think it’s touch and go for Dottie

  Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 05:15 in parenting

  Driving home from school yesterday my kid casually asked from the back of the van, “Hey Mom. Can you hurt a butterfly or a moth by pinching its wings?” Since butterflies (and moths) flit about and don’t seem to fly in a straight lin...

• I don’t want to live by the Yellow Mellow edict

  Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 05:31 in parenting

  It’s funny how some things are just ingrained in your head from such a young age that it’s nearly impossible to re-assign the mental image. According to my mother, I was potty trained by the age of two because parents didn’t mess around in the...

• I will not experience the dog days of Summer, Fall, Winter or Spring

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 05:29 in parenting

  Our eight-year-old wants a pet. She is fixated on getting a dog as she is allergic to cats and has asthma. Before we had children, we had two cats — our faux children as Mr. C calls them. We got rid of one in 2003 when our second daughter was ...