By Veronica The advice that other parents and grandparents give – “cherish every moment, because it will all be over too soon” – can inspire a quiet rage in me. That advice is easy to give, but impossible to follow when you haven’t brushed your teeth in 36 hours because when your vomiting dictator allows…
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Be Still Life
By Megan The pages of my life turn so fast. I lay in my bed this morning while the smallest napped, and thought of yesterday, sweet yesterday in the park, already a chapter gone by. Everything’s ticking, ticking, ticking; even the hums and drones and whirs of everyday life measure the bars of this family’s…
Empty Spaces
By Mary A while ago a friend and I were talking about balance in life, and the curse of busyness. She was gently suggesting that perhaps my life would be easier if I left some open spaces in my schedule, blanks where nothing needed to happen. I knew that she’d learned that wisdom through her…
A Dose of Humor – You’ve Got to be Kidding Me
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…
The Luckiest
By Beck I wrote a guest post for 5 Minutes for Special Needs which is posted today, talking about my feelings about The Baby’s Celiac Disease. And I do have a lot of feelings about it – some good, some sad – and you should totally go read that post, but mainly I just feel…
That House
By Kelly A Tuesday in mid-August doesn’t seem the most likely day for a dream to come true. Even when it dawns sunny and bright and filled with the sing-song of birds and toddlers, the ordinariness is louder than the potential within. That’s how my day started yesterday. A yawn, some coffee. Wipe a nose,…
Larry the Door Man
By Veronica Every Sunday in our church nursery, an elderly man sits in a chair, watching the door. His name is Larry, and he does not hear very well, but he watches the children and sits next to the door, making sure that no toddlers take advantage of a full nursery or a distracted teacher…
A Mom’s Guide to Soothing First Day of (Pre)School Jitters
By Megan If you’re like me, you’ve been scampering around for a few weeks now, trying to pull together everything on your Back-to-School list — the registration, the shopping for supplies, clothes and shoes, the re-organizing of the calendar and re-implementation of a school-friendly daily routine — so many important to-dos boiling away on the…
Cake, Ice Cream, and an Excedrin
By DeeDee (Me, circa 1961) Today is my birthday. You can sing to me if you’d like. I won’t be embarrassed. There was a time in my life, that if you took me out to dinner, and the wait staff sauntered over to the table to sing to me, I would slide under the tablecloth….
A Dose of Humor: The Origins.
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…