The Jubers

We were taking our usual after dinner walk with the dogs. Kerry, me, Clara in the stroller, and Hank and Homer. Deciding to take a longer walk, we strolled by the pool in our neighborhood bustling with children playing and splashing in the water. Such a refreshing sound on an early summer evening. There were [...]

Every time you get behind the wheel, can you say your child is in the safest possible position and buckled in the seat properly? Would you bet his/her life on it? Have you read your car seat manual front to back and the owner’s manual to your car? Who does? Even if you had the [...]

It’s scary being a new mom. I remember on our first night home from the hospital, Kerry looked at me as I was nursing Clara and said “so what do we do now?” Looking back on that moment, we can now laugh at it. But after experiencing the roller coaster of birth, dealing with jaundice, [...]

Nothing reassures me more about how I’m handling Clara’s sleep patterns than when she starts sleeping through the night on her own after a week or more of regular night waking and nursing. It builds my confidence that I’m doing what is best for her by responding to her at night, contrary to what many [...]

Is spanking effective? Is it harmful? Many experts seem to think so. Is it possible to spank and never have a negative emotion behind it? Even the kindest of souls are sure to get frustrated with their kids. The energy behind frustration or anger + spanking = hitting. There is plenty of research out there [...]

Stinky shminky! I give a “meh” to the stinkies. The cloth diaper stinkies that is. Usually the cloth diaper stink refers to the ammonia smell that lingers in the diaper pail. I prefer this smell to the disposable diaper pail rotten poo smell. Is it weird to prefer one bad smell over the other? The [...]

Raindrops on roses and cute baby tushies. Bright colored diapers without any mushies. Velcro or snappis and inserts with wings. These are a few of my favorite things. Thanks to the Green Bambino in Oklahoma City, I have quite a buffet of cloth diapers. From diapers made with microfiber to polyester to wool to organic [...]

Tttthhhheeeewp! Bllllllrrrrrp! Wsshhhhh! Ah, the sounds of snot being sucked into a tube. No more trying to shove a pointy syringe into your baby’s nose while she wiggles her head from side to side. No more accidentally squeezing the syringe at the wrong time sending air and icky particles that have been harboring inside the [...]

The Baby Book: Everything you need to know about your baby from birth to age two… in 768 pages…yep, that should cover everything. From baby care basics to infant feeding and nutrition to “contemporary parenting” to infant development and behavior to baby safety and health, there is a wealth of helpful info that I have [...]

The air is so dry in our house that my hands feel like they are going to crumble to a thousand pieces all over my computer keyboard as we speak. I can’t seem to drink enough water to quench my thirst and the static in my dog’s fur creates jolts of electricity when he rubs [...]