The very brief, but somewhat serious-parenting related

Stuff about me, and stuff about our trip coming later-during naptime or tonight.

Today's toddler science lesson is all about balls. And that balls bounce and balls roll. Big playground style balls and small tennis balls. They all bounce and they roll.

And two interesting conversations online lately...

On a queer parenting board that I sometimes frequent, the question has arisen "Would you want your child to be gay?" And my answer-"Don't much care as long as she's happy. I'll support and love her no matter what." I had to put no thought, no consideration into that answer, and I was amazed at, and impressed by the well thought out answers on both sides of the question. For me, it was just a no brainer. She is who she is and that she grows up to be happy, healthy and a mensch is all that matters.

I also frequent a rather mainstream parenting website. There are a couple of good health related boards-thyroid and PCOS, and I figure, my crunchy voice is probably a good thing for some people who are on the fence. So I read a board for parents with babies due in December of this year (when Bulle, the new baby is due.) And someone asked about discipline and mentioned that she was uncomfortable with spanking though her husband wasn't. And so I talked about what we do-positive discipline, gentle discipline, etc. But she said it sounded interesting and how it sounded comfortable for her, and asked how we came to that place, and I really couldn't answer. I'll probably try to actually figure that out later on, and answer her back, but I've never really thought about it before.

Book Help

There's a book that I saw briefly in my recent travels...it's a book along the lines of The Daring Book for Girls and The Dangerous Book for Boys. It's a book for Dads though...and I can't remember the title or author.

Do any of you people have ANY IDEA what I'm talking about?

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I just purchased eight pairs of shoes. This is the challenge with shopping online. I bought three pairs of shoes for me, each one in two different sizes. At least three, quite likely four of them will be going back. I also bought two pairs for zedrikcayne and at least one of those will go back.

I also bought Naomi shoes yesterday. Those aren't going back. I bought the same shoes she's wearing in the next size and in a slightly different pattern.

Now if the clothes I ordered (I'm in the cranky phase of "not really in maternity clothes yet, but not comfortable in a lot of my regular clothes either) would hurry up and get here before we go away, it would be nice. And the stuff I ordered for Naomi, too.


I have no idea if our house sitter is going to be around while we're gone or if he's going to be in Canada still dealing with his custody issues.

And Naomi is teething or something. I suspect teething because she's not running a fever, she's a little fussy and she's chewing on anything she can get her teeth on (fortunately not us though.)

So much to do.