By now, it is no surprise to me that motherhood is hard. Very hard. I have had several conversations recently with my sister-in-law who just had a baby. She is in the midst of the most physically demanding time of…
Life isn’t perfect, it’s messy. Tonight David went out with his brothers for his birthday and wouldn’t you know, Sophia got sick. She woke up sobbing in her crib, threw up multiple times covering both of us and her crib…
The Today show recently did a piece on parenting titled “I love my kids, I hate my life” and one thing they said stuck out to me and got me thinking. One of the “experts” said (paraphrasing)…
If you have a preschooler, you know exactly what I am talking about. Do you or don’t you put your probably-needs-a-nap-but-will definitely-fight-it 3 or 4 or 5 year old down for the rest that their body probably really needs?
My…
Everyone I know is pregnant. Really. OK, not really. But it feels that way. Between my real life friends and my bloggy friends and my facebook friends, I know at least 20 preggos right now. Maybe the lackluster economy is…
Some friends and I are sharing a garden this summer in her backyard. And while it was very fun to plant the seeds and get our hands in some fresh dirt, it has been a little more difficult than I expected to get over there and do my fair share of work. Ideally, I want this to be an experience I could share with my 3yr.old- something we could do together and a tangible lesson of sorts…
Whoever it was that coined the phrase “terrible twos” committed a huge injustice to parents, in my opinion. You brace yourself starting with the “I can move independently and thus get into trouble” stage knowing that the naughtiness and whining…
