Tanel's Blog

It’s OK - You really don’t have to medicate for a fever

Since he was a baby, Punkalicious has always rejected medicine. Thankfully, he never really was that sick. We’ve been through different tricks to have him take it such as chewables mixed with M&Ms, bribes, and well, just shoving it down his throat and having him immediately throw it up. Note to self - […]


Funny Cats Video

The kids were acting up last night and needed some distraction. After a few minutes of searching, Tom found this video. Punkalicious laughed so hard he almost threw-up. Enjoy.


Camping close to NE Florida

Since our recent camping trip with Theresa and Pat at Disney’s Fort Wilderness, we’ve been talking about where we’ll meet up next. I work with some avid campers and one of them was nice enough to put together a little packet of her favorite places convenient to Jacksonville that she likes to take her […]


Camping Checklist

While I’m sure there are a bunch of lists out there for camping supplies - some more complete than this one - after we went camping, I thought I’d share what we brought. The thing to remember about camping is 1) completeness and 2) multitaskers. The fajitas that we brought (along with the salsa and […]


Spanish Immersion/Montessori

We just found out that Punkalicious got accepted into the combined Spanish Immersion/Montessori program in the public school system for kindergarten next year.
The good news:
He’ll learn another language
He’ll continue in Montessori
He’ll be in public school
He’ll be in a classroom of 3 to 6 year olds so having a July birthday won’t make much […]


Our maladaptive children

This story has been all over the news this week, and those families who forced their children to sleep through what we consider inhumane methods (listen to our “Crying it Out” podcast) are jumping for joy.
We, on the other hand, have created maladaptive children because we choose to parent our children at night. This […]