Baby Teething Woes and the Toddler Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome.
This is the scary story of a toddler’s journey into the world of molar teething… Once upon a time, there was a sweet, sweet girl, name Tahra. She was a little girl with a lot of personality, but also with some incredible self control. She would be mad and just walk away, be frustrated and simply ask again and again for what she wanted, without a single fit or scream and would dutifully say please, whenever she was hungry,...
Letters To Our Daughter: Hurricane Sandy and Birthdays
The Letters to our Daughter posts consist of some excerpts of the diary we have written to her since we found out I was pregnant. November 3rd, 2012 – 4 Months Old My Dear Baby girl On the 28th of October we were getting ready to celebrate daddy’s birthday and a hurricane was scheduled to hit NYC. It ended up hitting New York City the following night. Hurricane Sandy left half of NY without light and a lot of people in...
NYC Big Egg Hunt for Fabergé Eggs
Now that Tahra is old enough to understand when we are doing an activity together, I was trying to find something appropriate for Easter, besides buying bunnies and painting eggs, especially since we haven’t introduced her to any candy yet and would like to keep it that way for the time being. Then we found out about the Big Egg Hunt, and figured we could use this for any activity, and she would be thrilled to find one of the...
What Really Makes Us Happy (with Science of Happy Infographic)
We grow up in a society that tells us that to be happy what you need is to make a ton of money, spending every waking hour focusing on your work so you can afford that brand new car your neighbor had just bought; that you need to look like an unrealistic version of a model, and that restricting all you eat with crazy and expensive diets and purchasing all the equipment infomercials sell is the way to do it. There is also the belief...
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