I don’t think Stormy’s Corner is a 100% mommy blog but sometimes it’s more mommy blog than other times. The Denver Post has a good article today about mommy blogs (and how much money they are making for some women.) The opening paragraph had me laughing. I definitely had that "nasty case of whiplash!" Julie […]
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I don’t know whether to be sad for the mom or proud for the kid. This eight year old called 911 not once, but several times, as his mom kept taking the phone away from him and hanging up. I hope she gets her life straightened out soon for her kids’ sakes. Vancouver-area mom arrested
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The Truth about Homework clearly argues that homework is not good for kids – or at least that the cons of homework outway the pros. I think I definitely learned more in the classroom than I did from any homework but I learned two things from homework: How to write papers. We never wrote
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If Caleb was still crawling, this is what he’d be for Halloween. Since he’s walking, I have something else in mind and you will have to wait and see!
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Our seven year old likes to play in the garage attic. To get into the attic, you have to climb a yellow rope and not everyone can do that, so it’s a secret hideout. Turns out he’s been working on how to get his one year old brother up there! Last night he said "I
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According to a reputable seven year old, I have eight pairs of eyes all over my head. This causes other people to get in trouble a lot.
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I’ve heard from at least three different people in the last week that being a step-parent is hard. I think being a parent is hard. I think being a kid with four parents and two homes is hard. I really don’t think being a stepmom is that much harder than being a mom. (Once in
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Here’s three things I never knew before I had kids: You have to practice bookmarking. Not the computer bookmarks, the old fashioned kind. You do this by crawling around the house and pulling the bookmark out of every book you find. You then try to insert the bookmark back in the book. Pull out and
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As I said in my last post about choosing a new doctor, we’ve seen a lot – like really a lot – of medical people this year. I’ve really come to appreciate medical people that take my concerns seriously (all of those visits but one were very necessary) and I’ve become really annoyed at people
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When do you decide you need a new doctor? In the past year we’ve been to the hospital once, the ER three times, urgent care twice and the doctor’s office countless times! That’s a lot of medical care – and all of the visits except one justified some type of medical treatment. So today when
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