Monthly Archives: November 2008

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….

Play Freebird!

By Beck “I want to go away for the weekend or something,” I grumped at my husband the other night, which caused him to look at me in some alarm. We’re surrounded by a lot of families that have suddenly fallen apart, generally because the mother – almost always the mother of young school-aged children…

Baby Food

By Kelly Growing up, I was never the domestic type. My dream was multiple careers, not multiple kids. I brushed off attempts by my Mom to teach me how to cook and clean and iron. I showed no interest in decorating or design. Heck, I barely knew how to do laundry. In college, I changed…

The Trouble with Magnet Schools

By Veronica Today I will be standing in line with hundreds of other people in the cold, cold weather for at least two hours, but possibly five. It’s not for a concert or a Broadway show or the latest high tech gadget. We will be standing in line because we hope to get our children…

Making a Bright Spot Out of Our Disappointment

By Megan My family had a reunion over the weekend, but the husband, kids and I weren’t there. We’d been planning on making the 10 -13 hour drive down to South Carolina from the Chicago suburbs for the event for almost a year, starting way back before we’d met our baby son, Peabody, whose head…

A Roomful Of Hope

By Mary Written October 5, 2008 in the Dominican Republic This morning as I walked up an uneven set of stairs and stepped into the hubbub of my third Compassion project of the week, I didn’t know that this was the project that would touch me to the core. Kids jostled in rows of white…

A Dose of Humor – What do you find when you “Decrapify” the SUV?

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. This week’s contributor,…

You Moved Us

By Nell Heather with Especially Heather writes about the love of a daughter for her mother in I Just Had To Share. Audrey with Mom Generations vlogs about her life with her four boys four and under. It’s real, true life and oh so sweet. Be moved at vlogging Motherhood. Beth from I Should Be…

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…

Changing Music

By Beck I lost my mp3 player recently – where could it have gone? I really don’t know – and it’s surprising to me how much I’ve missed it. I only use it once a day, while I’m falling asleep at night, and I certainly don’t listen for very long – even without babies, I…