Picturepocket's Blog

Category: parenting

  • #Goals

    I have been trying to be very conscientious about how much time the kids spend indoors and be sure that everyone, including myself, gets enough sunshine, exercise and fresh air. So, yesterday after Eliana’s online school was over and everyone had had lunch, I put us all in shoes and loaded them up in the…

  • Canceled

    So many cultural things that I grew up with have been canceled. I agree than lots of songs and shows in the 1980s and 1990s were trash, but others have been deleted, not because of problematic content, but because of problematic creators. The Cosby Show for example was a staple of most households for a…

  • WandaVision

    A super hero story that we can all relate to.

  • 7 Things the Pandemic is Challenging for Us

    This week we recognized the 500,000th death in the United States to Covid-19. It would be shame if we did not at least acquire some new insights. Here are seven things that the pandemic has challenged for us. 1. Our mirage of control. Humans have learned to control and separate the natural environment to such…

  • Chapter 1

    Like a sequel in popular fiction, the second book is usually an exaggeration of the first.

  • Til We Have Faces

    I met a fellow mom.

  • Infamous History

    “Mom, how do you spell gangster?”

  • New Year, New Plan

    For the new year, I am going to try out different meal planning techniques. I did the meal boxes last month, but now that I am finished teaching, I am going to try actually picking out recipes and shopping and preparing the food myself. I started off with a EatingWell recipe book, but everything was…

  • Finding Christmas

    Nobody was under the illusion that this year was going to be an easy Christmas.

  • Trophy Life

    People complain of the “everyone gets a prize” mentality, but why is celebrating anything but total domination a bad thing? I won no trophies while growing up in the late 80s and early 90s. Other than a few badges from Brownie scouts and a radio that looked like a soccer ball that I got from…