Category Archives: dancing

Welcome to the team

Welcome to you all, old friends and new.  It’s a special day at Team Rasler: our SITS day!  If you don’t know what that means, you can find out more at the end. Allow me to introduce you to The Team.  But first, I should tell you that Three of us are sick today, and…

The minor milestones

I originally wrote this as a Facebook note, back when I was new to both FB and to blogging.  Now, two and a half years later, I keep thinking back to it as I watch Theo attain each one of these.  So here it is again, with some updates in honor of the little man….

Songs that suck: Promiscuous

About a month ago, I was reading this great post over at Literal Mom about songs that suck.  She was talking about songs that are catchy and therefore everywhere, yet completely inappropriate for children (and maybe for adults, too).   As soon as I read it, I immediately thought of the song “Promiscuous” by Nelly Furtado. …

Cures for the Common Blues

Maybe it’s the end of the day. Or the end of the week. Maybe you, like me, are stuck home with sinuses so stuffed that your head feels suspiciously like a watermelon bobbing around as you try to deal with two small children by yourself. Either way, you know the feeling. You just.can’t.take.it.anymore. The arguing,…

>Morning Moves

>Sebastian has been honing his dance moves lately, and we were finally able to capture some on video. (Usually when I turn on the camera, he gets distracted immediately by the shiny red light and stops dancing.) Anyway, there are many other updates I could be making this week, like telling about our trip to…