Although I believe in God, I enjoy reading atheist blogs and skeptical web sites. (I also greatly enjoy reading what my Christian friends have to say, from Methodist to Mormon, and I really should go read Ship of Fools more often.) A great skeptical /atheist parenting blog is Rational Moms, where I found this particular gem:

How good are car ( Read more... )

for those of you who have friended me on flickr (rl name) - I uploaded new pics of the kids today. :)

I had to blog this:
The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator

Drill, Baby!

Brought to you by perceval aka Rust Mustang

... and we have started weaning. Today, Sparrow has gobbled up two portions of porridge (1 Dsp baby porridge / 3 Dsp water) with absolute and utter relish, guiding the spoon to his greedy little mouth. (OK, so a parent still had ultimate control, but Sparrow was definitely helping.) If that's not READY, what is?

I also see that we are still here..

Not that Palin, the other one:

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- for all the birthdays I've missed! helenllama, cynthia_black, miriammoules ... Miriam, hope you got the books I sent you ( Read more... )

Well, who'd've thought it - another update. And again not necessarily sprog-related. Since my first pregnancy, I've been drifting more and more away from the New Age spectrum (energy healing, reiki) towards skepticism. I've subscribed to the Randi forums, am reading skeptical blogs, and my reading material is mostly non-fiction, science, psychology ( Read more... )

First of all, apologies for not commenting a lot - when I have both hands free in front of a computer, I usually work or reinstall software and operating systems. Today, I created a 60% Linux, 40% Windows work laptop, with the Windows partition expressly reserved for MS office documents only. Despite everything, when collaborating with people who ( Read more... )

I'm hoping to write a post each day, just to get writing. Now that both kids are down reliably by 9.30 (yes, I know) I have the time to do this. The shift in bed time has come with shorter days, but I think we're also seeing a developmental spurt in the three-year-old: She is happy with a far shorter bed time routine these days. That is, 1 hour as ( Read more... )

both under firstnamelastname and as percevalsq. And you?