My daughter didn't start walking until she was thirteen months old—about the time all the baby books said I would need to consult a doctor if she wasn't walking by then. So of course I stressed about it. She was also in pull-up diapers longer than other kids in her daycare (a stranger even once remarked to me in a…

It took me a long time to learn to apologize without qualifying it. When you screw up, suck it up and don't make excuses. That doesn't mean I don't try to explain that my intention wasn't to be a dick, but I screwed it up...or that I misunderstood the situation and didn't mean to be a dick. Either way, like you say,…

I love having my kids cook with me. My 2 year old mostly just makes messes so I can control that with what I choose to let him have. My 7 yr old, though, she's mixing sauces and whipping creams and helping me bake. Yes, frequently it means a big spill or an eggshell or some other complete, global catastrophe...or it's…

I definitely have a hard time with advice like this. I don't mean I don't like it or don't want to accept it. I mean I have a hard time implementing it. I'm told it takes practice, and I believe that, but after a while it's hard to wonder when the positive effects will take. On those days when it feels like my whole…

PHONE for Google (also called MO+ GV Phone it appears)

My favorite salsa recipe is to stop by La Fiesta on the way home from work, chat with the fellas about kids, work, weather, the UT football team (since none of us knows anything about football, it's pretty funny), then buy a pint of their salsa and go home.

I get my stuff from Adafruit. A garage door opener was my first project other than going through the learning sketches. Mine was laughably simple, but it worked. I hooked the Arduino to a desktop because it didn't have networking. I then used twitter (with TweetMyPC I believe) and I wired an old garage door opener to…

I know where you're coming from, and here's how we broke ourselves in. We joined a gym that has child care. Good stuff, we get to watch movies in the cardio theater while the kids are in the next room. The gym also has Parents' Night Out where you pay $15 and you get four hours to eat, see a movie, take a nap,…

My aunt Minerva went that way. We tried to rush her to the local hippie supply and incense store, but we were too late. In the end, she smelled of wet dog and could only gurgle out her pleas for a lotion or bath salt made of lemongrass oil. God rest her smelly soul.