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  • Our first week of kindergarten

    A welcome note to any of my daughter's classmates parents who have found this blog. First, rest assure that I won't be blogging gossip here or anything I think is inappropriate for a blog so darn public. If you're the teacher, I will always bring my concerns to you before I ever write about it here. That said, back to our regularly scheduled ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on September 5, 2008
  • A volcano? Oh, a tornado! Or why I lie to my kid

    That's what my five-year-old daughter said as her daddy was rushing us to the basement on Monday night. She then burst into tears from fear. Jennifer, our resident parenting professional, blogged that we shouldn't pretend to not be scared around our kids. That we need to reassure them that we're scared too and that their fear isn't silly. *sigh* ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on August 7, 2008
  • Yeah, but my [body part] is so [adj]

    The hardest part about raising a daughter has been watching my mouth. I swear a lot. I use the F-word A LOT. I also take almost any opening I get to say something negative about my body.''Oh these chicken breasts are huge!'' I bet they could at least button their shirt. As women, I think we all do this. As a woman who isn't a size 8 much ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on March 5, 2008
  • Super Fat Tuesday

    I haven't gotten my paczki yet, but we did vote this morning. There is a blurry photo of my daughter holding up our ''Thank you for voting'' receipt. We all got up extra early because I feared that with the snow coming in the evening others might wake early to connect the arrow and vote. But nope, no wait when we got there and it was quick & ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on February 5, 2008
  • How much sex ed and when?

    For the record, I'm not supporting anyone in the 2008 election at this point. I'm watching, reading, and trying to decide between a few candidates. I am voting for a Democrat, but occasionally like what I hear from a few GOP candidates. Today thou is a whole 'nother story. In today's The Swamp, Sen. Obama rips into former-MA Gov. ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on July 19, 2007
  • Do we owe it to each other to work outside the home?

    The dreaded ''Mommy Wars'' usually pits working moms against stay at home moms. It took the genius of Sylvia Ann Hewitt and Linda Hirshman to top it off with a dollop of guilt. Hewitt began the baby panic with her 2002 book castigating us career gals with not having babies before we hit our ancient 30s. My all time favorite response was from ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on July 16, 2007
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