by Flora Caputo | Oct 20, 2009 | Motherhood, Uncategorized, Womanhood
We were at some friends of ours for dinner a few nights ago, and we got to talking about the economic climate and stress levels. It seems everyone I know is worried about doing twice the work with less staff, and many of our friends are out of work. Everyone,...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 17, 2009 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
I have not had a blog post in a bit because of the shear high-pitch busyness my life has suddenly taken in the past week! I had two big presentations, I volunteered to be on our school’s very large festival fundraiser this week (meaning many hours are being...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 27, 2009 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
After much deliberation at our house, we decided to get our daughter on an allowance schedule for doing chores. I never got an allowance when I was younger. My parents always told me “Why would we give you money for something that is expected of you?” And...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 26, 2009 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
As my friends embark on their mommy journeys, I find myself sharing ideas and tricks that worked for me not too long ago. One of the struggles we had with our daughter was helping her find words to communicate her feelings. Children have many emotions, but they are...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 17, 2009 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
Coming off of the “great unplugged family experiment”, I realized how very distracted with multitasking all this technology has made us. Ironically enough, there was a great article in Real Simple this month (September issue) that was written by a man who...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 17, 2009 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
On our recent vacation to Michigan, we rented a different cottage than we typically do. Because we were new to this cottage, we were not sure what amenities there were. The write up said “cable” TV and a DVD player. We also figured we would be able to get...
