Last time I wrote specifically about bicycle commuting and daycare, I was pretty anxious about it.  I’m still doing it, though, so I thought I’d better write an update on how our commute is going.
Transporting Kids by Bike
At one point, I was dithering about how to transport my youngest (three years old).  Fellow blogger Sarah [...]

Ugh.  It’s 10:20 on Sunday evening, and I’ve got tools scattered around and a bicycle with the front wheel still off.  Fortunately for me, it’s not my own bicycle.  It currently belongs to my middle daughter, and has a flat tire.  Unfortunately, the tire doesn’t want to come off the rim, even with tire levers.  [...]

Oregonian reporter Shelby Wood is also a bike-commuting mother, and today she posted a blog and video about her bike commuting experience.  She actually put a camera on her helmet to record her commute!  The helmet-cam footage is pretty bumpy, but she also had someone else take footage of her commuting.  They even show her [...]

I almost got rained on Friday evening.  There was stuff falling from the sky, but just barely, and any Portlander will tell you that that is NOT rain.  I rode calmly to the daycare provider’s house, picked up the kids, and rode home.  No sweat.  Well, actually, I sweat a lot, but it’s completely unrelated [...]

I’ve got two sick kids today, and so I’m staying home for the second time in a little over a week.  That makes me feel ever so slightly guilty, as I do have things to do at work, but I’m fortunate enough to have an adequate number paid sick days each year to cover these [...]