ElementalMom

I know, I know, I was supposed to start off with basics. But I think it would be more practical to start with where we are — the Holiday Spend-O-Rama. At no other time is there so much cultural pressure on you to do the wrong thing, wrack up consumer debt, purchase needless stuff, and [...]

Woke up this morning thinking about getting food on the table. It’s soooooo easy to jackrabbit, on this particular holiday, into the materialistic. But due to the film What The Bleep Do We Know!?, I’ve been toying with the concept of consciously creating my day, which actually works far better than I would have expected. [...]

Cracks me up that I started this blog as a mommy thing, and it looks like we’re heading into intense Buddhism and Finance territory (talk about opposites! Ah, the contradictions of modern life!) Anyway. my pal Bryan, who is also quite the Buddhist scholar, had more to say on the topic of Windhorse. This is [...]

On Nov. 19th, his Grandma’s birthday, Kestrel cut his first tooth, bottom left front. And thankfully, the drama seems to be cooling…less drool, less pain. My happy baby is returning! Now, just a whole mouthful left, aiya! We spent our whole weekend with family; cousin Nathan turned 1, and Uncle Scott held Kes pretty much [...]

Money. Finance. Cash flow. …words that strike terror, guilt, and fear, into the hearts of most of us. We all dread tax time, most of us have recordkeeping systems that aren’t systematic at all, we take whatever insurance our employer offers us (or whatever we can or can’t afford on our own) and don’t even [...]

Because of the trickles and bits I’m seeing around the media, I’ve joined a yahoogroup (anyone who knows me, knows I think that yahoogroups are often the best source of info about most parenting concerns) devoted to discussing the juggernaut coming to California, courtesy of that bonehead Rob Reiner, called Universal Preschool. Frankly, I’m terrified. [...]

WAHOO!!! Yesterday, despite teething and a yucky cold, Mr. Kestrel S. Hudson crawled two whole …steps? Is that what they’re called when it’s crawling? Anyway, we’re all terribly impressed. And truth to tell, I’m also a little panicked. Crawling before the first tooth is out? Egads! The motivation for this forward motion was, unsurprisingly, trying [...]

Tis the season, generally, to be charitable. I’m not quite sure why it’s now, and not some other time, but there you have it. The requests to ante up, some delivered with more humbleness than others, are beginning to pour through the various channels of communication. It’s weird to me that people think more about [...]

My pal Dana loans me her castoff reading material, since we’re interested in a lot of similar stuff, and because her book budget is worlds higher than mine. Anyway, this weekend, Rowan was really sick; hacking, coughing, miserable little boy who only wanted to curl into my lap and do nothing, and Kestrel has kicked [...]

Telecommuting has got to be one of the finest inventions of the age. This is the view from my desk. Sometimes, just for fun and if I’m in danger of not being thankful enough for my sitch, I listen to the morning traffic reports while still in my jammies, tea in hand. As a working [...]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! At the request of fans and grandmothers alike, welcome to ElementalMom. It’s me, it’s our adventures as a family, it’s easier than a webpage or a baby book. I’m hoping the boys will appreciate it when they’re old enough to read, and even more, when they get to the parenting gig themselves. So we’re [...]

We Three… 

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! At the request of fans and grandmothers alike, welcome to ElementalMom. It’s me, it’s our adventures as a family, it’s easier than a webpage or a baby book. I’m hoping the boys will appreciate it when they’re old enough to read, and even more, when they get to the parenting gig themselves. So we’re [...]