5 Minutes for Parenting’s weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. It’s me, Rachel,…
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Thankful
By Beck Canadian Thanksgiving is this upcoming weekend. I like the mid-October date for Canadian festivities, but feel rather wistfully that Americans have a fairly good idea in putting the holiday in late November instead – November is short on cheerful holidays AND it makes a nice kick-off to the holiday season as a whole. …
Pregnancy Journal
By Kelly Women, as a collective, share many things. Stories about buying our first bra, getting our first period and waiting for that high-school crush to call can unite a disparate group and cause instant camaraderie to well up. But nothing really touches the symbiotic topics of pregnancy and childbirth. It can ignite a firestorm…
The Sleep Log in My Eye
By Megan Oh, how I have judged, people. Nearly five years ago we had our first baby. Our Bean. Now Bean, like all newborns, came out thinking day was night and night was day and turned our world upside down by sleeping when we wanted her to eat, eating when we wanted her to sleep,…
Mind’s Eye
By Gretchen I’ve thought about him all morning, dressed like a Jolly Green Giant, but not jolly nor giant. Sam is the Frog Prince in a class play this morning. “I’m so nervous.” He looked grim as we prepared for the day. “You will do great! You will have so much fun! No reason to…
And her name is Love.
By Stephanie I know I don’t write here often. But I had to today. After a long week of trying to fight a cold and no sleep and sick kids and you know that exhaustion that comes over you as a mother, or a father, when you are just carrying the weight of the world?…
The First Day of October
By Beck Autumn was at its peak last weekend, and we drove down a country road surrounded by 100 year old farmsteads and red orange yellow leaves on trees and Mennonite boys in straw hats chasing sheep down hills turning gold with the cold fall sweeping in and taking all of the leaves away. The forests…
My Reasons
By Veronica I was going to write a post about Roman Polanski and how angry I am at his defenders. I was going to write a post about how disgusted I am that people still blame children for the crimes committed against them, or excuse their perpetrators if they are rich or talented or charismatic….
My Son, the Car Thief
By DeeDee A few weeks ago I dropped Jensen off in the children’s Sunday School at our church. The prospect of doughnuts gets ordinary folks through the steeple doors, but not my son. The draw for Jensen, is the opportunity to play with the cars in his classroom. Fresh cars. Cars he doesn’t get to…
A Dose of Humor – The Nth Disease
5 Minutes for Parenting’s weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. Now you can…