pregnancy

Does this pregnancy make me look old?

Kids keep you young? At 35 that’s hard for me to believe.
This pregnancy makes me feel old. Really, really old. Lately my purse is a portable pharmacy with giant bottles of Tums, Tylenol, various other meds, eye drops, tissues and Shout wipes.
Worse yet, my olfactory senses are disintegrating. That or my mental processes are on [...]

interviews

Seven-year-old piano prodigy featured on 'Little Einsteins'

Disney Channel/Heidi Gutman
Ever wonder what you’re child’s talents will be?
Ethan Bortnick’s mom didn’t have to wonder for long. When Ethan was 3, he taught himself how to play the piano using the “Baby Einsteins” DVDs. He’s been composing his own music since he was 5 and now, at age 7, has memorized over 200 songs.
Ethan’s [...]

parenting

There’s a whole lot of cussing going on

Language around our house can be salty. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like we’re the Osbournes and the f-bomb is dropped every other word, but there is the occasional curse-word muttering or exclamation.
I’ll admit, in my younger years, I wasn’t so careful to guard my language around my oldest son Jay. He was speech-delayed [...]