Category: Kids

It’s not always easy to know how to pray for a baby. (Other than, “O God, please let her fall asleep now.”) But it occurs to me that there’s a ready-made list that pretty much sums it all up for me. Continue reading “What we want”

Here in our Boyds’ nest, _W_ doesn’t just stand for Wednesday. It means “Weigh Day,” too. Continue reading “Weigh day”

The last couple nights, Lucy went to bed a bit later and even (oh joy!) slept a bit later this morning. Normally, I’d try to ease her back into our goal of a 7pm-7am sleep pattern. But then I remembered: daylight-savings time is rapidly approaching. Who wins, Lucy or the clock — or both? Do we even have a choice? Continue reading “Daylight-savings time”

In a house with a baby, there’s so much regular noise, that a little white noise comes in handy from time to time. Here’s an audio file I made that you can download. Continue reading “White noise”