Maren is what you might call “spirited”. She’s many wonderful things, and most of the things that drive me absolutely INSANE are awesome traits for a person to have. They’re just a bit of a challenge for a parent. Like, she’s really, really persistent and intensely focused on what she wants. Someday, she’ll be the [...]

We try to eat food. Real food. Sometimes we have sweet potato fries for lunch, and I often have a stash of chocolate hidden in the cupboard, and we have resorted to gummy bear bribery in the potty learning realm, but mostly we do pretty well. So, when the time comes to start feeding our [...]