It's no secret: we're a baseball-loving family. We took a road trip two weeks ago to Sacramento, Calif. so we could watch some minor league baseball. The Fresno Grizzlies, the SF Giants Triple-A team, played the Sacramento River Cats (Oakland...
Topics: baseball, random riffs

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We'll be in the car on our way to somewhere and Seven will ask, "Mom, you knew someone who died when the robbers crashed the planes they stole on September 11th." It's never a question, always a statement. "Yes, honey. Her name was.
Topics: family, random riffs

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A large jar filled with colorful treasures, large and small, can lead to many moments of kid-inspired happiness. They will take the buttons out, one by one, and line them on the floor. They will sort them by color, by shape, by size, by feeling, or by...
Topics: random riffs

{"title":"Simple things kids love: A jar of buttons...","post_url":"http:\/\/www.crazedparent.org\/2009\/05\/simple-things-kids-love-a-jar-of-buttons.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.crazedparent.org\/rss.xml","author":"crazedparent","date":"2009-05-15 12:02:48","summary":"A large jar filled with colorful treasures, large and small, can lead to many moments of kid-inspired happiness. They will take the buttons out, one by one, and line them on the floor. They will sort them by color, by shape, by size, by feeling, or by..."}

Luna Lovegood has been sick for the past week. And when you have a pet who is ill, your reaction is similar to that when your kids are sick. You worry when they mope and sleep all day and night. You grow sad when things that they adore, like stuffed...
Topics: dogs

{"title":"Getting her groove back.","post_url":"http:\/\/www.crazedparent.org\/2009\/05\/getting-her-groove-back.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.crazedparent.org\/rss.xml","author":"crazedparent","date":"2009-05-11 10:14:42","summary":"Luna Lovegood has been sick for the past week. And when you have a pet who is ill, your reaction is similar to that when your kids are sick. You worry when they mope and sleep all day and night. You grow sad when things that they adore, like stuffed..."}

The second I saw this post over at Omnomicon with photos of an amazing rainbow cake, I knew I'd be trying it at home. It was just a matter of picking an occasion. I wrote about the cake over at Yahoo! Shine for my Itty Bitty Bites series because I...
Topics: photography, Project 365, random riffs

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