Dispatches From Babyville Archive
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Sleeping with the Fishes
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 44 | No CommentsSpring! The season of new life and rebirth! Unless, of course you’re a goldfish in our home, in which case spring is a time of death, plain and simple. Last... -
Picture Perfect
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 43 | No CommentsBy the middle of January, I’ve packed up all the Christmas ornaments, wrestled the fake tree back into its box and tossed the leftover candy canes into the trash. Last... -
Ye Olde Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 42 | No Comments“Guess what’s happening this weekend?” I asked my husband on a recent Friday evening. We were folding laundry, each of us tackling our specialties — he pairing socks and I... -
Nesting Nirvana
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 41 | No CommentsI almost had a baby at Ikea. That sounds like it could be a metaphor so let me clarify that I am speaking literally. I almost went into labor and... -
Spring Cleaning
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 40 | No CommentsMy family lives by the Five Second Rule. But even my five and seven year-old understand that the Rule has its exceptions, that it works in some situations and not... -
A Christmas Legacy
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 39 | No CommentsWhen I was a kid, my mother made my sisters and I homemade Christmas stockings. Every December, these craft-tastic masterpieces still assume their positions of honor on the banister of... -
Draft Protection
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 38 | No CommentsMy son was born on Thanksgiving, which meant that he was a newborn in the coldest weather New York has to offer. This concerned me. Since I was the first... -
Midsummer Night’s Dream Vacation
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 37 | No CommentsI’m not saying motel trips are what they used to be but with a few adjustments, we’ve made the Middle of Nowhere Overnight Getaway into something the whole family can get behind. -
Little House on the Slope
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 36 | No CommentsI’m not much of a fan of historical fiction. Details about how women laced their corsets in Victorian England or what kind of muskets soldiers used in the Revolutionary War... -
Brooklyn Cyclone
By Nicole Caccavo Kear| Issue 35 | No CommentsI’m a big, fat liar. An inadvertent one, to be fair, but five year-olds don’t make these subtle distinctions. My son thinks I’m a big, fat liar because I promised...