by Amy LeForge | Jul 31, 2010 | Fun For Your Friday
Welcome to Fun For Your Friday Saturday, Internets! We’re a day late but well rested here at Earnest Parenting. After several consecutive looooong days of going to the fair, we took yesterday off. And by “off” I mean the boys cleaned their rooms, fed...
by Amy LeForge | Jul 27, 2010 | Tween
When TechnoBoy and The Mercenary were little we refused to tell them who was older. This wasn’t intended as any kind of sociological experiment; we were just trying to keep the playing field balanced. TechnoBoy, who was born first by 5 minutes, was smaller...
by Amy LeForge | Jul 23, 2010 | Fun For Your Friday
Good Friday, Internets! You’ll be pleased as punch to know that we washed 8 chickens in 45 minutes without injury last evening. Granted, I don’t think we got them as clean as a die-hard poultry showman would, but they’re clean enough. We’re...
by Amy LeForge | Jul 22, 2010 | Discipline
A theme I keep coming back to in this blog is the disconnect between my work ethic and the boys’. I am a workaholic. Plain and simple, I’d rather be pursuing a task than sitting still. The older I get, the more I want to be completing things. Don’t...
by Amy LeForge | Jul 20, 2010 | Resources/Reviews
Remember the pasta test we did a few weeks ago? It was fun! As a result of that post, I was contacted by Meredith of McDowell & Piasecki, asking if we’d like to try out a brand I’d not heard of before: DreamFields Pasta. It turns out that Dreamfields...