My husband and I were perfectly happy with our standard-issue; single-setting; no fuss, no muss; fixed shower head. It was roughly the diame...

The Champ’s room is empty save for a trundle bed bought for a handful of dollars at a yard sale and a corner dresser filled with clothes he’...

Daylight Saving Time always makes me want to go into hibernation. It’s not that more daylight isn’t welcome or that I’m sad to see winter m...

Ever since college (when I was trying to make the nightclub money stretch as far is humanly possible) I’ve had a thing for Goodwill Hunting ...

Cold. Air. Ittybit has pulled the covers off my bedraggled head and now she’s screaming into the sheets. "Mom. Get. Up." "No....

I didn't even know she was upset; she was chattering away as I was poking around in the paper bags my husband had brought in from their ...

Sundays used to be all fun and games around our house. But to hear them tell it, the day had not gone well. It had started out fine: She’d g...

A small room in the Time & Space Limited warehouse contained all the magic a one-year-old could want: Crayons, markers, bottle caps, pap...

February is an angst-ridden time for parents of the soon-to-be post preschool set. In February, kindergarten registration looms large. It ma...

It was a joke the adults got immediately. It was a novelty: a roll of toilet paper printed with the likeness of the 43rd U.S. President. At ...

I’d like to introduce Jenny, Ittybit's virtual pet Webkinz. Jenny's pseudo real-life counterpart, a stuffed dachshund toy, has been...

In order to observe a clear example of what the opposite of athletic looks like, all one had to do was be standing on the top of a particula...

Lately I’ve been feeling as if people around me are cheerleading in a kind of Paul Revere fashion as the hours close in on another year. The...

“She certainly knows what she wants,” said the manager of the Skate Factory. Ittybit was standing in front of her, rearranging the order of ...

I've been laughing at folks who tell me being without electricity for five days last week effectively put us back in the 1700s. I laughe...

She was all ready to get started. She’d cast off her coat, hat and gloves and was eager to take a seat next to one of the fragrant gingerbre...

I’m standing under the warm glow of our new, seven foot-tall Blue Spruce Christmas tree, cursing. The Champ just ran over my foot with the b...

If you spent Black Friday as I did — hunkered down over my computer screen, wishing the fairies of consumerism would just kill me already an...

I was probably knee-deep in laundry or inspecting the insides of my eyelids last weekend when the social-networking site known as Twitter ex...

Ittybit loves her brother. Sometimes she loves him a little too much. Sometimes I have to exile her to her room for a little while so she ca...