Welcoming Boredom

The last two weeks I have been introducing a new afternoon ritual with the boys. At 5PM everything shuts down. No TV, no music, no mom the cruise director. Usually at this time of day I am cooking dinner and I had gotten into the habit of turning on something on the old PBS Kids…

My Apologies

I am going to be completely honest. I had a bit of smugness going into this second round of parenting. When I had my first I had no experience with kids. Like none. No nieces of nephews, I had never babysat, heck they even had to teach me how to change a diaper at the…