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Glue Sky’s First Year

I just realized I started this blog in January 2009. I was surprised to realize it’s been a year of blogging. As usual, time goes by very fast, until I reflect on the details. Here are some of them: From our lives: Ero learned to do everything within this year… walking, talking, hugging, thinking, eating… [...]

A Very Silly Holiday Gathering

It was a very silly time. It was an ice storm outside, but inside we brewed beer: That’s some kind of cooling system. Joe and Pete enjoyed watching the temp drop. I did not enjoy watching them lift a rather huge pot of boiling stuff to the sink. We visited with a lot of family [...]

Dailyish Roundup – Fear, Supersonic

Dailyish Roundup lists studies and info I find important to life as a parent. Daily is more of a goal… Oh my goodness. Stretching kids to make them taller? – Some South Korean families are trying to help their kids succeed later in life by making them taller. When fear makes us super human. Overweight [...]

Gifts – What did you/will you give?

I’m curious. What did you give for Hanukkah or what are you going to give for Christmas? Or the 12 days of Yule? I am told tonight is the “Wild Hunt.” But I digress. Who are you people and where do you shop! We got this little truck for Ero. We got Lou a little [...]

Dailyish Roundup – Young Minds

Dailyish Roundup lists studies and info I find important to life as a parent. Daily is more of a goal… How to teach young minds – This is an interesting read. It says we should teach kids math earlier and reading later. A new study finds that the reward center in the brains of depressed [...]

Painting, Visits, Finishing up Gifts

Thank goodness it’s visit time. Grammy just came out, and tonight Aunt Nora comes out. It helps with the freezing temperatures to have my family here. We’ve been very busy with it all. I just finished the present for Grandpa Rich. A needlepoint James Webb Telescope. He’s a manager on that project. I find embroidering [...]

Routine and Respect: Making Amends

My favorite parenting books and studies say it’s important for kids to make amends when they make a mess, break something, hurt each other, etc… We do this making amends thing a lot. Like when Lou stuck my favorite pen in her gluestick so hard it broke… I told her how sad I was that [...]

Dailyish Roundup – Germs, Bones

Dailyish Roundup lists studies and info I find important to life as a parent. Daily is more of a goal… Germ exposure in pregnancy may benefit kids, study indicates Ugh, more water in the US contaminated stuff. Bone loss drugs may lower breast cancer risk. Alcohol may increase breast cancer risk. Nearsightedness increasing in the US. [...]

Toddler Made Snack

Lou decided she was going to make her own peanut butter and jam sandwich. She got the jam, peanut butter and a small knife. I got a plate down for her (I should move some dishes down low…) She did a great job. Most of the food was in the center, but she didn’t mind. I [...]

Dailyish Roundup – Toddler Brain

Dailyish Roundup lists studies and info I find important to life as a parent. Daily is more of a goal… A toddler hops from one activity to the next, which may be key in their learning. Talking to teens about depression – ask a teen if they are depressed and they will most likely say no, [...]

Collaborative Work – Parent and Preschooler

Here’s Lou and I drawing together. I drew the outlines and she would draw the insides. She drew tomatoes on the ketchup, pizza toppings on the pizza slice, and colored in the soup can. We were looking at some wooden play foods. Drawing from reference is important to me. I used to think people drew everything out [...]

Dailyish Roundup – Therapy, Robot Hand

Dailyish Roundup lists studies and info I find important to life as a parent. Daily is more of a goal… Going to relationship therapy when things are still good – I recommend reading this book to make a good marriage a better one. I think Gottham has some newer books that might be better, but [...]