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Blogging Baby Sleepover for Thursday, 28 September

Categories: Health & safety, Playground bureau

I'm awfully far behind in my blog reading, so I'm going to invite you all to catch up with me as I pop in and see what some of my favorites are up to. Marian, over at Kirala, has written such a lovely post about how parenting changes once you've handed your child over to university life. She says, "It's as though I can hardly believe that the phase of hands-on mothering is over. I suppose it's a bit like graduating from something - medical school maybe. You probably can't quite believe you're a doctor. Until you start behaving like one and earning money like one. I can't quite believe I can do as I please right now." Marian is one of my parenting idols; I find such inspiration in her posts about raising her son, both from when he was little and his teenage years.

Marsha, who lives in Japan with her family until her husband's transfer next month, writes about making the best of a bothersome situation, ending with giggles. "As we were headed out the door I discovered that I could not find the keys. We searched high and low until I remembered that I had left the keys in the car, all locked up and secure. As I glanced at the clock I discovered that we had five minutes until the bus would come." Oh, I know the pain of keys being where they don't belong!

Laura, of No Appropriate Behavior, has a post up where she addresses a question from one of her readers. Laura's son is allergic to at least 250 types of food, and someone wanted to know what she thought about the newest allergy shot that claims to cure, well, everything. She gives us all a great lesson about allergies themselves and why she'd be leery of this treatment.

And, as always, Elayne and her son just crack me up with their funny banter. Who knows, DO insects have nostrils??

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