Author: Rebecca Cuneo Keenan

Rebecca Cuneo Keenan is a writer who lives in Toronto with her husband and three children.

5 Birthday Ideas I Won’t Be Using This Year

Post author By Rebecca Cuneo Keenan
Post date April 16, 2009
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#5. Indoor Gym/Playground This is actually a great idea if you are hosting more than one or two kids and are short on space in your home — especially in cold weather. Giving kids a place to run around like mad is never a bad plan. They are not free, however, and they are not everywhere.

#4. Rented Equipment You can rent just about anything from a bouncy castle to a cotton candy machine to a big old tent. You will want first, though, to make sure you have enough space, money, and kids to warrant the expense. And, for heaven’s sake, make sure the rentals are age appropriate — nobody wants to put their one year old on that giant inflatable slide. (Or their 16-year-old for that matter.)

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I wear

Post author By Rebecca Cuneo Keenan
Post date April 15, 2009

DAILY SNACK

“Grandpa wears reading glasses. Do you wear reading glasses?”

“No. I wear sunglasses. To protect the sun from my eyes.”

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Dangling Dancing Dinos

Post author By Rebecca Cuneo Keenan
Post date April 15, 2009

I have not historically been the most timely person. It keeps happening that I will set something aside for just a little bit with the best of intentions. That task will invariably become buried (both literally and figuratively) beneath all of life’s daily debris and become quite forgotten about.

It so happened then that the wooden dinosaur mobile Young C got as a baptismal gift from my grandmother when he was eight months old never got hung up. The fine fishing wire that holds the dinosaurs was badly tangled, so the box was set aside to be grappled with just as soon as we got the chance. And if Young C himself hadn’t found the box while nosing around in our closet the other day there’s no telling when we would have gotten around to it.

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How to Make Baby Laugh

Post author By Rebecca Cuneo Keenan
Post date April 14, 2009

DAILY SNACK

FAM!

Peels of baby laughter ring out.

So again he tears over to the other side of the couch and slowly drives his white convertible dinky car along the arm.

It turns the corner and heads toward us along the back of the couch.

FAM! he shouts.

And again she’s in stitches, laughing and laughing.

So we do it again. And again and again.

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Too Much Sleep?

Post author By Rebecca Cuneo Keenan
Post date April 14, 2009

Eleven hours of sleep. Holy cow.

I decided to take a long four-day weekend (like many of you) over the Easter holiday and return to the blog writing business refreshed and energized. The problem with holiday weekends, though, is that they’re exhausting. And I never think they’re going to be. I always think that just because this weekend is a day or so longer than most I’ll be able to catch up on all kinds of tasks and errands and trek back and forth across the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) visiting and still wind up feeling reinvigorated.

So when I lay down beside my extremely high-strung and caffeinated three-year old last night, (who’s idea was it to promise Easter chocolate as an after dinner treat?), my plan had been to help him settle down and then put on a pot of coffee and write a thoughtful treatise on the role of religion in the family in this new millennium.