By Beck This is a reprint of a post from April – hence the reference to Maundy Thursday – of 2007, and it’s incredibly poignant for me, reading about The Baby curling up on my lap. It’s already done. Sniff. This afternoon, The Baby was hanging out being petulant and almost-two and I took this…
Monthly Archives: October 2008
A Good Mom
By Kelly I was a good mom today. I say that with no small amount of satisfaction, because many days, I’m not. I don’t listen well. I don’t play often. I’m not amazed enough. Simply put, I’m not wholly present. I’m always splintered. I eat lunch with Connor AND check my e-mail. I play Legos…
Full to Brimming
By Veronica I took all four kids to the grocery store the other day. I realize that for many of you, such an event is business as usual. You always shop with your kids. Maybe you even have an organized system that works. I am not you. I avoid taking my children to the grocery…
Planning the Work and Working the Plan
By Megan Have I told y’all that before I married Al, we worked together? Well, we did. And having worked together for a decade in various capacities has, as you can imagine, had a somewhat significant impact on our married life. We can, when we step back and choose to, employ the tactics of working together that…
Parenting 101
By DeeDee My husband and I read all sorts of parenting books before our first daughter, Emme, was born. We were so knowledgeable that we counted ourselves “experts” in the field of child raising, even before the first diaper change. We looked down our noses at other parents with uncontrollable children in public places, wagging…
A Dose of Humor – Hair Raising
5 Minutes for Parenting introduces a new weekly column, A Dose of Humor, 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. Today’s writer…
Babies Don’t Keep
By Stephanie I’m what most would call an “attached” parent in the sense that I pretty much never put my baby down. She sleeps with me and she nurses whenever she wants (even if it means I have to pull the car over). I hold her a lot and wear her in a sling throughout…
Revelations
By Beck On the weekend, I was complaining in the evening – after the kids were tucked away, sleeping in their small beds – complaining about their rotten behaviour, about how one of them had hurt my feelings at a family gathering. I felt raw and hurt and distant from my kid, muttering dark forecasts…
The Wall
By Kelly I am tired. Really tired. I haven’t gotten a good night’s sleep in … well, I don’t remember how long. Since July maybe? I know this is to be expected. It’s part of the baby package. And, to be honest, I don’t have it as bad as many new moms. Teyla, like my…
Things I Have Done One-Handed Since Having a Baby
By Veronica My youngest daughter is now five weeks old and, like all babies, she wants to be held all the time. You know how it is. So I am rediscovering the skill of doing things one-handed. Deboned a chicken. Mashed potatoes. Swept the floor. Typed this post. Loaded the washing machine. And the dishwasher….