I'm worried about H1N1, but I'm more worried that fear will cause us to stop our lives AND teach our kids to be afraid.
Read my blog about it
here.
www.mom2momkc.com Continue
Added by Kate Beem on October 21, 2009 at 7:24am —
No Comments
I support my kids in their sporting endeavors by getting them to practice and coming for the games. But I don't stay for practice and won't rearrange the family schedule so my 12-year-old can play 25 basketball games between November and February. Is that unreasonable?
read about it
here.…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on October 7, 2009 at 10:39am —
No Comments
I hate when that happens! Read all about it
here.
www.mom2momkc.com Continue
Added by Kate Beem on September 30, 2009 at 10:42am —
No Comments
How crazy is your kids' school bus? Do you even let them ride it? Read my blog about it
here.
www.mom2momkc.com Continue
Added by Kate Beem on September 23, 2009 at 7:53am —
No Comments
"Guiding Light," the longest-running soap opera in TV history at 72 years old, signs off forever on Friday. I wax nostalgic:
http://www.mom2momkc.com/?a=profile&u=67&t=blog&blog_id=2588 Continue
Added by Kate Beem on September 16, 2009 at 8:12am —
No Comments
Yikes! What do you do when one of your kiddos comes home with nits? Buy the expensive anti-lice shampoo? Shampoo all the carpets? Burn down the house?
Click
here to find out what happened to me...
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on September 9, 2009 at 10:57am —
2 Comments
You can find this blog and others like it at
www.mom2momkc.com.
Here’s a fun game to play when you’re stuck in line with your kiddos at the DMV or waiting for a delayed flight and your 6-year-old’s on meltdown or you’re driving across Kansas and your 13-year-old’s sarcasm level is about to make your head explode:
Imagine what breed every member of the family would be if you were all…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on September 2, 2009 at 11:09am —
No Comments
I always thought I was a fairly cool mom, one you wouldn’t be embarrassed to take with you to the mall or Back to School Night.
I’m no prude. I don’t wear “mom” jeans. I’ve allowed my older kids to have birthday sleepovers every year since they were 7.
I’m edgy. I’m…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on August 26, 2009 at 5:30am —
No Comments
Added by Kate Beem on July 8, 2009 at 9:23am —
No Comments
You can find this blog and others like it
www.mom2momkc.com.
If you heard a loud noise early Tuesday morning – sort of like a primal scream – it was me.
That was my reaction to the latest salvo in the grossly overwrought and completely fabricated Mommy Wars.
Enough already, you writers who are merely trying to justify your own decisions. Quit trying to start a seventh-grade-style fight. And butt the heck out of my business.
What set me off was this: Dr.…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on April 9, 2009 at 9:05pm —
No Comments
You can find this blogs and others at
www.mom2momkc.com.
Today begins National Child Abuse Prevention Month. And it reminds me of a story.
When my older son was in third grade, I dropped by his school one day for lunch.
He asked a couple friends to join us, and we went into the hallway outside the cafeteria, an area affectionately called The Café.
The boys were joking around, laughing at the stuff 8- and 9…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on April 1, 2009 at 9:49am —
No Comments
You can find this blog at
www.mom2momkc.com.
In light of the present dismal economy and fragile world we live in, I question the wisdom of Mattel Inc. making such a big whoop-de-doo about Barbie on her birthday.
She hit the big 5-0 on Monday and got a facelift. And a tattoo. And let’s face it, she got a boob job and probably lipo, too.
Puh-leeze. There’s no way she could be 50 and still fit into that same b…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on March 11, 2009 at 6:30am —
1 Comment
You can also read this blog at
www.mom2momkc.com.
http://www.mom2momkc.com/?a=profile&u=67&t=blog&blog_id=1952#comments
You know how I’m fond of saying kids don’t come with an instruction manual? Still true.
But they do come with a helpline. It’s called Parents as Teachers.
And in Missouri, every parent has full and free access to the program, which sends trained and certified parent ed…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on March 4, 2009 at 5:34am —
No Comments
But man, did we ever think we did.
Remember the orgasmic coverage of his quest to win eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, a feat he accomplished? Remember how he broke seven world records and was dubbed by sportscasters and other talking heads the “greatest athlete of all time?” Remember all those stories about his underage boozing?
Oops, no. We don’t remember those because we didn’t hear much about those “youthful indiscretions.”
So news that broke last week of Phelps toking up at a S…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on February 11, 2009 at 9:23am —
No Comments
You can find this blog at
www.mom2momkc.com.
I had an epiphany the other day.
I realized I don’t have to have a sick kid around to watch
Arthur on PBS. It’s OK if I watch it by myself – although it makes for better discussion points if at least one of my offspring watches it with me.
See, as I’ve said before, my husband and I didn’t really think through our decision to have kids. I mean, yeah, we discussed i…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on February 4, 2009 at 8:01am —
No Comments
You can find this blog at
www.mom2momkc.com.
I pretty much stumbled into having kids and waltzed through my first pregnancy with very little thought to the work that lay ahead. Only during the last few weeks, when I took Lamaze, did I wonder, “Was this really a good idea?”
And then afterward, I decided it was, although there were so many things no one told me. Or maybe they did and I didn’t listen.
Like aft…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on January 22, 2009 at 7:40am —
No Comments
You can find this blog at
www.mom2momkc.com.
I had a panic attack yesterday.
It was long overdue and in fact had been building since the day in 2002 that we welcomed our youngest child, Tom, into the family.
I remember so clearly holding his little 6-pound, 2-ounce body, feeling complete, feeling unbelievably happy. The euphoria lasted about a day. And then the dread set in, and it’s been there in the back…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on January 7, 2009 at 7:35am —
No Comments
You can find this blog at
www.mom2momkc.com.
We haven’t quite mailed all our Christmas cards yet.
So if you’re someone I usually send a card to and you haven’t yet received one from the Beems, don’t despair. It’s on its way.
Frankly, I don’t think we got as many cards this year. And I know we didn’t get as many Christmas letters – you know, those sometimes-braggy, generally lengthy rites of the season that…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on December 31, 2008 at 2:33pm —
No Comments
You can find this blog at
www.mom2momkc.com.
When I was a kid, my sisters and I devoured the Sears Wish Book each year.
We circled the items we wanted and dog-eared the pages. We dreame…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on December 24, 2008 at 8:22am —
No Comments
You can find this blog at
www.mom2momkc.com.
This economy stinks, yes. And my chosen career field is imploding, true.
But I’m not too worried because my kids and I dreamed up a new reality show early Tuesday morning: Extreme Parenting: Stomach Flu.
OK, here’s how it works: You start out with one parent, probably a mom. She’s got to have at least two kids, and she’s at home alone with them. Maybe she’s a si…
Continue
Added by Kate Beem on December 18, 2008 at 5:39am —
No Comments
