If you know the tune, please sing along . . . .   Happy Blogiversay to you, Happy Blogiversary to you, Happy Blogiversary, YoungMarriedMom, Happy Blogiversary to you!   Today is the one-year anniversary of my first real blog post, and I think that’s cause to celebrate!  If it weren’t Lent, this would definitely qualify […]

Sometimes I wonder:  when parents look back on their children’s behavior in their younger years and see hints of since-blossomed personalities, are they projecting what they’ve learned about their children on the past?  Or are there real indicators of character at as young as, let’s say, six months?     As a rule, I try […]

Parents give their babies all sorts of nicknames.  Sometimes they are based on their given names, but it seems more often than not, they are coined for entirely different reasons.  For example:   We called Jacob “Peanut” when I was pregnant with him (and sometimes still do) because when we first saw him on the […]