By Cassie How often do you pat yourself on the back? I have written before about the many hats I wear. Mothers work very hard. It doesn’t matter if we work in the home out of the home or simply stay at home with our babies. Parenting is tough. It is constant. It is rewarding….
Author Archives: Cassie
Reflections of a young mother
By Cassie I was sitting in the lawyer’s office patiently waiting for them to call my name. Kindly flipping through a magazine and eyeing all of the little plaques and pictures on the walls. Right at that moment it hit me. How did I get here? How did I go from that girl who was…
you can blame a single mother.
By Cassie If you look at the way parenting trends have changed over the last few generations it is astounding. My mother was a single mother. She was divorced when I was six and raised me mostly alone from there. I remember as a child constantly being told we could not afford things. People knew…
Worst mother alive
By Cassie I have been home with Aiden for exactly a month. Going into this I thought this would be a great bonding experience. A month home all day just me and Aiden. I had all these ideas of the things we would accomplish. The cleaning that would get done. The activities I would plan….
Head Over Heels
By Cassie Somehow whenever my friends and I get together we end up talking about motherhood. I know mothers usually do talk about motherhood! However, none of my friends are mothers or fathers for that matter. Their curiosity about the whole event astounds me. Most of them assure me that they never wish to have…
GO GO GO
By Cassie I ran across an old newspaper the other day. The front page pictured three women from the early 1970’s. These women were the first trained “fire women” in Illinois. As I am reading the interview with these women I am appalled by the questions. “What will you do if you have a cake…
How do you do it all?
By Cassie I started thinking the other day about the many hats I wear. I am a mother first and foremost. Aiden is what I wake up to in the morning and what I think about before drifting asleep. Aside from Aiden, though, I hold many other hats. I am a student. I took my…
grab life and go
By Cassie I have lived in Illinois since I was ten years old. This week I went sledding for the first time ever. I know you guys are thinking how has she never been sledding? I was deprived as a child I suppose but this was in fact my first time. I decided it was…
Instructions for Parenting
By Cassie Kids don’t come with instructions and neither does being a single parent. There is no one way to raise your child. No one to tell you how to handle each situation, each moment, each emotion. Sometimes it’s easy to find the answer. Sometimes that motherly instinct comes raging in to save the day….
Fashion sense?
By Cassie I became a Godmother this week. It was a beautiful baptism and a lovely after party. We were getting ready to eat supper when an older relative approached me. “I love your hair,” She said. “and your dress, you look great.” I was flattered. It’s rare that I get compliments on my fashion…