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Did Mia Hamm Start Out This Way?

Posted by: Barefoot in High Heels on: June 22, 2009

Our first organized team-sport season ended.
Three- and four-year-old soccer.   Otherwise known as a pack of preschoolers chasing a ball, without regard to which direction they’re headed.
For 6 practices and games, there was at least one poor child (usually mine) crying at some point or another.   The first few weeks for Miss M, it was almost [...]

Perhaps the Apple DOES Fall Far . . .

Posted by: Barefoot in High Heels on: May 4, 2009

We took a field trip recently.  A class of 3-year-olds at a local nature center, with different rooms that correspond to caves, lakes/rivers, and grasslands.  Lots of insects, snakes, amphibians, slithery-slimy creatures that’s just right for the preschool set!
But not for some of the moms.
You see, I have this major irrational tiny little fear of [...]

I thought this was a kids’ flick . . .

Posted by: Barefoot in High Heels on: January 23, 2009

We don’t watch many movies here at our house.  PBS Kids is pretty safe, and the PBS Sprout On Demand channel is a big hit with my girls.   But Miss M at 3 years old is very sensitive and takes in EVERYthing she sees and hears.  She is frightened by a car commercial when the [...]

Thesaurus Rex

Posted by: Barefoot in High Heels on: November 19, 2008

Well, I’m a little late for this month’s Kids’ Picks carnival over at 5 Minutes for Books.  Oops!  I blame it on my bloglines reader not updating me with the feeds from their site recently (Bad Bloglines!).  It could, of course, be due to my complete lack of organization and not knowing what day it is, but [...]

Toys and Things Your Kids Will Love

Posted by: Barefoot in High Heels on: November 5, 2008

I can’t wait to check out all the links on this week’s Works For Me Wednesday post.  It’s a themed edition — Toys Worth Buying. 
Well, considering I have a bunch of big, plastic-y toys (none of which I have bought personally!) that I do NOT want cluttering up my living room, I’m all for some [...]