The Spendthrift's Progress

The girl is, as I type, napping in her crib in her own room. This is a small miracle (as she normally won't go to sleep anywhere but our...

So a very long time ago--almost a year now--when my child was stuck in Size 2 diapers (one of the sizes you can't get bulk) and we were ...

Just in time for the Memorial Day Weekend, the Scrapepenny household got hit hard by a stomach bug. Scrapepenny herself was struck down at w...

Toddlers, it turns out, are a much more time-consuming business than babies. Even when the toddler isn't quite to the actual toddling st...

I've been bra shopping. Well, bra window-shopping. Well, okay, pointing and laughing at all the bras available in my size range so as to...

I've claimed since the girl was old enough to have a personality evident to people besides her parents that babies are really just tiny ...

Now that we've been cloth diapering for, oh, 8 or so months, I find that there are still some aspects of it that baffle the heck out of ...

I swear, that's all I need. Just one. So long as it's functional, of course. After almost four months back in the work saddle, I thi...