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Yesterday we learned that it’s normal for an ultrasound to look, well, a little weird.  The baby’s still cooking, after all, and as one tech once told me:  “Ultrasound is kind of like trying to tell what an elephant looks like by feeling it’s tail.”

What’s not…

My husband and I have a very clear division of labor in our marriage:  He calls the cable company whenever there’s a problem.  I don’t.  That rule was created about three years ago, after an hour long phone call with a service rep that left my with a nearly permanent eye-twitch.… Read More »

Forget the swine flu, America, we have a real crisis on our hands:  A shortage of Eggo Waffles.  Kellogg’s announced this week that due to production problems, waffle production in the United States won’t return to normal until mid-2010.  Read More »

Day Care Sells Cocaine

Finding a good day care is so hard these days, you have to accept compromises. Maybe your kid’s day care is a little pricey, doesn’t stay open as late as you’d…

Murphy’s law says that if your child is going to get bumped, bruised, scratched, or the impulse to suddenly cut their own hair, it’s going to happen in that seven day period before school picture day. Read More »

According to Common Sense Media, Nickelodeon’s Glenn Martin, D.D.S. is “iffy at best” for kids under 16 due to sexual content and some gruesome violence.

Nickelodeon agrees, saying they never intended for the show to be watched by children in the first…

A survey of 3,000 British families found that arguments break out among family members about three times a day — adding up to four solid days of arguing a year. 

That’s it?  Four days?  I might have guessed a little higher.

The survey also found that most arguments are…