By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough Thanksgiving is almost upon us and as anyone who reads Late Enough knows, I’m not a fan. However, I am a fan of survival. And mashed potatoes. And not making things worse than they already are. So I’ve put together my top 10 ways to survive Thanksgiving because [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough This isn’t my usual funny family article, but I felt moved to have this conversation. Our community received happy news on Friday afternoon that Robbie Wood, Jr, an 8 year old boy with autism who had been missing since Sunday, was found alive and in “serious but good” [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough We go all out for Halloween. And by “we,” I mean “me,” and my insistence on a massive theme of awesomeness. In fact, I have only missed 2 Halloweens in my 33 years. But to keep it from being too easy (because then it wouldn’t be PARENTING), my [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough Princesses have infiltrated my world. It began with a nostalgia for Aladdin on a rainy afternoon and morphed into 13 books, every G-rated movie with a princess-looking character on the cover, 23 dolls, 2 crowns, and 1 trip to Disney on Ice. We are living in castles and [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough When I said to my son: Where do you want to have your birthday party? He yelled: ROMP N’ ROLL! I even double-checked and offered other options because this is the second year in a row that we’ve had a birthday party at Romp n’ Roll, but he [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough Nature and I have never been friends. The one time I went camping with Scott, I woke him up every 30 minutes for NOISES. I refer to hiking as forced marches and insects make me leap into the air like I’ve caught fire. Also, falling leaves do that [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough I reached a point in parenting, not too long ago, where I raised my eyes to the heavens, shook my fist and yelled: WHY CAN’T I HAVE NICE THINGS. Things my children broke (in no particular order): 15 necklaces of mine including one with handmade beads by my [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough I had to stop myself at nine and give myself an ultimatum for number ten. Otherwise, it was just depressing. 1. Teaching my children about time. Because now “I’ll be done in a second” means I get exactly ONE SECOND to do it. PS. It took me five seconds to [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough I walk into my coffee shop. Barista: Your usual? (I use up all my creativity writing, OKAY?) Me: Not today. (Oh, my usual is a cappuccino and a croissant. But only at this particular coffee shop. I’m too intimidated by all the -iatos and -attes at Starbucks to [...]
By Alex Iwashyna, blogger at Late Enough My mom, daughter and I walked into a local restaurant to have a quick lunch before picking up my son from preschool. My daughter and I frequented the place about twice a month for the most of fall and winter. As we entered, the waitress gave us a [...]
