Raw Drip

It was an innocuous phrase from my mother that doomed my 5th annual gift of a mushroom-spotted potholder & dishtowel set to it’s gloomy fate  - ”This is so nice, I’m going to have to save it for good,” she said with an awkward smile and a forced chuckle.  I think I was about 9 years old when I first suspected that telling me my [...]

As I was chatting with a co-worker the other day, she mentioned that her 3-year old daughter’s daycare isn’t having an “Easter” party this year because a parent complained last year about Easter being too religious.  So this year her daycare is celebrating “Bunny Day”.
Bunny Day?  I’ ve been around for awhile now and I’ve never heard of anyone [...]

In sharp contrast to many American households, I’m proud to report that we are bi-lingual.  We aim to be fluent in both English and Kiddo.
But becoming a bi-lingual household is a lot harder than I thought it would be, primarily because Adam and Tabitha are both native Kiddo speakers and seem to lack any interest in helping their English-speaking [...]