By Stephanie In just a few hours this year comes to a close. It was a pretty good year for me. I was pregnant for most of it and then birthed my first daughter. I made friends and lost some friends. And truthfully I saw more heartache and pain in the lives of many than…
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Closing the Door on Baby-Having
By Veronica Yesterday, I had a tubal ligation. My friend Deb drove me to a small medical center where an anesthesiologist put me under and my OBGYN zapped my fallopian tubes. The hospital where my babies were born is a Roman Catholic hospital, so the procedure could not be done there. At this point in…
My New Years Resolution 2009
By Megan What’s your New Years resolution this year? Share it with us in the comments! Megan also blogs at FriedOkra.
On Fire For The Baby Jesus
By DeeDee This year we had a choice of services to attend for Christmas Eve. There was a 4, 5:30, and 7:00 service. I jumped at the 4:00 service. That way, I reasoned, we could be home in time for dinner, and could ship the children off to bed at a decent hour, so Santa’s…
A Dose of Humor – Pride Comes Before What Again?
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. We are privileged…
Merry Christmas
By Beck I salute you. I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got. But there is much, very much, that while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in…
Overdone
By Kelly I chalk it up to hubris. I had such an extraordinarily productive morning– cleaning the house, picking up toys, vacuuming the half-gallon of pine needles from under our Christmas tree – I thought I would bake cut-out cookies with all three children, right before dinner, all by myself. Idiot. I say that fondly,…
Untrodden Ways
By Veronica I named her for my favorite flower, the small, unassuming, purple blossom that is scattered through lawns and woodlands. I did not know when I named her that there would be nothing unassuming about her. From the beginning, she had no warm-up cry. Her wails of dissatisfaction began full-throated and strong, a holler…
Merry Week, Merry Family, Merry Christmas, Everyone
By Megan What a busy, fun, exciting week we have before us. Just like everyone else, I’m running around trying to get all the last minute details wrapped up, but I wanted to share a few of my family’s favorite holiday traditions and ask everyone to share their own in the comments. It’s not too…
Soaring
By Mary The other day my oldest daughter taught my four year old how to say the letter C. Now she can say ‘cat’, among many other useful words. When I heard her say it, my heart clutched up. I didn’t want her to sound so much like…a big girl. But one look at the…