Parenting Sites 411

Unless you’ve had your head stuck in the sand (like my husband) you probably realize that many parenting bloggers are women.  So, on the rare occasion that I find a good read on a blog that is written by the dad.  So, I decided, the time is nigh.  Here’s a brief intro and then I’ll get you the goods.

The site I am introducing you to is daddeeyah.  He has a blog and he writes it from the father’s point of view.  He calls it this “collection of my own experience & gathered knowledge on all things related to parenting: must-have baby gear, medical & medicinal knowledge (& hopefully regular contributions from the pediatrician in the family), musings of the day, etc.”

I would highly recommend you go to his site and at least read the about section and then his site is easy to navigate so you can just jump in and start reading after that little bit of background.  With that, here’s a couple of posts that Daddeeyah called out as his favorites, go read, see what you think, because I really enjoyed it.

First, You are four years old today.. and since my kids are playing hookie, or my one child is playing hookie tomorrow, I enjoyed reading the whole idea of doing things with my kids while they are still kids because we all know what happens right?  Yea, t

hey grow up.  So, give Doing stuff with the kids..

And, speaking of school, it’s a tough transition and here’s what daddeeyah had to say about it First day back at school and multi-lingual kids

Imagine you have to go grocery shopping and you have six young children at home. You have to take them with you and the resulting trip is about what you would imagine it would be. You survive the trip, however, and pay the enormous shopping bill only to get home and realize the kids had snuck a purchase into your card that you were unaware of. What would you do? Most parents would confiscate the offending purchase, throw it away, give it away, or sell it at a garage sale. Well, in this day and age, eBay is basically just a giant garage sale so that is what what one desperate mom did.

It sounds like your normal “kids will be kids” sort of story, but the best part is her description of the shopping trip.  This woman can write and her account of exactly why she missed these cards going into her cart is what makes this auction so fun and so worthy of the scads of attention it has received over the last week.

She made $142.51 on the auction, but admits that it was her friend under an anonymous username that placed the winning bid.  Her friend wanted to help her out, apparently and invest in someone who she thought would be a successful writer one day.   According to the woman who placed the auction in the first place, she will not cash the check her friend sent her because she doesn’t want to take her friend’s money.  Very kind, I’m sure, but with six kids I’d think that money would come in VERY handy!

This gal has a blog too, of course.  If you’d like to check it out, you can find it at mom2my6pack.blogspot.com.  There she talks more about her family and recently, more about the auction that has launched her into super-blog-stardom.  She really is worth a read so go check her out!

I really hope you don’t get tired of me telling you how excited I am that our neighborhood is getting a playground. The build starts today and I was so excited I couldn’t sleep past 5:30. I finally got up at 6 and cleaned the kitchen, something I needed to do, but still I don’t usually do that at 6 am. My husband is a team captain for a part of the project, so he had to be up earlier than normal.

I am on-call for childcare. If someone shows up at the site and needs childcare, the organizers will call me to go get the kid(s). On Saturday, the biggest day of the build, I will be actually working on site, doing level 1 type jobs- raking mulch, sanding wood, painting, or working the volunteer table. We have some friends who will be watching Fuller, so that takes the pressure off me.

Thinking about serving and helping others has kind of been a theme in our family lately. I know that Fuller is too young to fully comprehend what is going on this weekend, but he will benefit from the hard work of the many neighbors who are coming together to build this great playground. And when he is older I will expect that he will want to give of his time and talents in a similar fashion.
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