Since I am on vacation, I am re-posting this for you to enjoy. Thanks for reading. “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” – Chinese proverb I spent the weekend with some of my family, which was, as always, a lot of laughing, a bit of arguing,…
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Sometimes I Wish I Had a Baby
Sometimes, every once in a while, I wish I had a baby. Truthfully, babyhood wasn’t my favorite time being a parent. I was often tired, messy, confused, and anxious. Babies take an enormous amount of physical work – the lifting, carrying, changing, bathing, feeding, rocking, cleaning, comforting…you know what I mean. Some of that was…
Attachment Parenting, Mommy Wars and Boomerang Kids – the Connection
There are a few ideas floating around in the social media milieu about parenting. Well, more than a few. There are a zillion, actually. And all of them are right for some parent somewhere. In the past few days I’ve read about mothers who breast-feed until their children are in kindergarten, women who parent while…
Help 8 Year Old Arden Fight Her Brain Tumor
We all fall in love with our children. They become, from the minute they’re born, the thing that is always with us, the little (then big) souls that we nurture, care for, teach, tend to, and most of all adore with all our hearts. Our lives, no matter what they were before, are different after…
Education Job Layoffs Far Outpace Government Job Layoffs – What Gives?
A May 3rd article in the Orange County Register reports that year-to-date on the national level close to 15,000 jobs in public education have been cut due to budgetary issues. Trailing far behind in second place is government jobs, with nearly 9,000 jobs lost. There’s something wrong with this. How is it possible that teachers…
Mommy Bloggers: What Makes a Good Mother?
One thing is for sure about the blogosphere: there is a huge number of mommy bloggers. These women offer a wide range of ideas and opinions on an endless variety of topics, including (but certainly not limited to) natural births, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, homeschooling, socializing, eating vegan, tips for traveling with children, potty training, husbands, friends,…
Twice a week, every week. And it’s not what you think.
For the past four years, every Tuesday and Wednesday night, my brother-in-law Andy has come to stay with us. Some of you may think there’s a lot that’s terribly wrong with that sentence. EVERY week? For two nights? For four years? Yes, and yes, and yes. And it’s been great. Seriously. Before Andy became our…
My Dirty Laundry
I love doing laundry. I love the fact that there is a beginning (dirty clothes on the floor of the garage) a middle (sorted and washed, dried) and an end (folding and stacking). For the past 21 years, since we’ve lived in this house, my laundry ritual has been to sort and fold while sitting…
Karma – what goes around, comes around
Karma. I learned about it a long time ago when I was in college from a co-worker who, when I told her I had been let go from my job after refusing my boss’s inappropriate sexual advances said of him, “what goes around, comes around.” I thought those words were the most brilliant thing I’d…
Sailing Away on Her Last Spring Break
How can it be? How is it possible that my little girl is nearly done with college, and setting sail on a cruise through the Caribbean for her final spring break…ever? How can she be nearly twenty-two…wasn’t I just twenty-two a few minutes ago? I remember my big spring break trip – for $168, we…
