By Megan My sweet husband and I are fast becoming strangers, as we’ve divided up a great deal of this phase of double-parenting into shifts, and in those minutes when one or both of us aren’t occupied wiping or soothing or feeding or playing Candyland, we’re both completely beat, cranky and don’t have another ounce of energy to meet one another’s needs. And I know we should…
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Celebrating Our Successes
By Mary A while back something ‘mysteriously’ got broken at our house. I narrowed down the suspects to two, but could not get a confession out of either child. This was frustrating for several reasons: first of all I wanted to know who the culprit was, but even more important, I want my children to…
A Dose of Humor – Jesus is the Real King!
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…
The Game Of Survivor
By Stephanie It’s nearing the very last minutes of the day and once again my heavy shoulders sigh at my inability to make any progress over yesterday. I am not even treading water anymore… my head is barely above the surface. Like last week, the big F was sticking its tongue out at me today….
Fire Proof
By Beck The Baby and I have lots of weird, preschooler-sized adventures during the day. For example, this week, we (and ten other kids from her playgroup) went to the fire station and met Sparky The Giant Bipedal Fire Dog and sat in the big loud fire truck. Half of the kids were crying hysterically…
Dose of Reality
By Kelly Hi. My name is Kelly, and I’m a parent of three children. Natalie is 7, Connor is 4 and Teyla is 8 months. As you might suspect, we’ve battled our fair share of colds over the years. In fact, Connor and Teyla have colds right now. My walls echo with the sounds of…
My Mother and the Cake Mix
By Veronica My mother came to visit me for the birth of my daughter, turning my home upside down for a week and then happily flying away. When my mother visits, several things are certain. First, our butter will be soft, and rather than slicing a pat from the end, she will scrape her knife…
I Didn’t Make the Cake
By Megan I called my Mom earlier this week, just as she was wrapping up a luncheon she hosted for a couple of her friends. Mom entertains often and always does it up Martha Stewart-style with fabulous all-homemade food and decorations perfectly arranged around the appropriate seasonal theme. If y’all’re going to lunch at Mom’s, you…
Give Me Some Earplugs!
By Melodee I’m turning into my grandmother with her intolerance for noise. Macular degeneration stole her sight, so she sits in one chair, mostly, listening to the silence when she isn’t listening to the Bible on tape. I rarely take my kids to viist because I know she cannot tolerate the noise. She’s 101. What’s…
A Good Laugh
By Stephanie I am excited to introduce a new feature at 5 Minutes For Parenting. The beautiful Rachel of Grasping For Objectivity In My Subjective Life will be dishing up A Dose Of Humor, a new column you can find here on Saturdays, and also even have your own funny stories featured- see below! Rachel…