Archive for Motherhood

Why I am not mushy Reason #57

I got an email from a friend who read the last post asking if we are going to have another baby, because that is how it sounded.
Uh NO.  Definitely NOT. 
Unless I get complete amnesia and forget how hard those first months are, OR they invent a new and improved model child who is completely self sufficient (including [...]

the perfect storm

I have been doing this parenting gig long enough to know that kids go through rough patches.  You know, periods of weeks or even months when they seem determined to drive their parents up the fucking wall.  They can’t help it, this is just part of growing up.
The past few weeks, we seem to have [...]

Third Wave Girl

All day yesterday and last night I was stewing about some of the comments on that last post.  Not in a bad way, but it was really making me think.  I also realized that my post and the comments I made in response to other comments completely conflict with one another.
Statements in question:
I can see [...]

like sands through the hourglass…

M is getting so big.  When she was a tiny, wordless slug, I couldn’t wait for her to get bigger and DO something already.  As time went by, she stopped being a slug and started becoming a real person.  Now she is changing at the speed of light and the days are speeding by faster and [...]

APA parenting meme

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I just got tagged by Rice Daddies to do the APA parenting meme.  I read a bunch of the other memesters, but didn’t post because I didn’t want to step on any toes.  You know, the white girl trying to horn in on APA parenting thing.  Now that I have been tagged, here goes:

1. I [...]