Monthly Archives: January 2009

A Dose of Humor – Because We Only Talk About the Most Delicate of Subjects Here.

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. Okay – so…

Reflections of a young mother

By Cassie I was sitting in the lawyer’s office patiently waiting for them to call my name. Kindly flipping through a magazine and eyeing all of the little plaques and pictures on the walls. Right at that moment it hit me. How did I get here? How did I go from that girl who was…

Cabin Fever

By Beck I’m really static-y right now. Every time I’ve kissed my kids over the past week, they’ve managed to get a considerable static-charged shock from me. It’s a blessing that we don’t have carpets – particularily SHAG carpets – or the static build-up might have reached dangerous levels by now. Winter comes as a…

Leaving Home

By Kelly Corey leaves on a business trip tomorrow. It’s his first trip of the new year and the kick-off to a busy travel season. Thanks to conferences and client visits, he’ll be gone roughly every other week between now and May. Unfortunately for me, most of those trips will be to warm destinations. The…

Three Is a Magic Number

By Veronica There is something about having three kids. Having one was hard; that sudden switch from non-parent to parent exhausts everybody who experiences it. Two had its challenges; I could no longer focus on meeting the needs of just one kid. Everything had to be shared. But three. Three was a whole new ballgame….

Peabody’s First Love Letter

By Megan Dear Peabody, I never thought I’d have a son. Never imagined myself mothering a real-live man-in-the-making, so you’ll forgive my rather befuddled awe at your perfect boyishness and your inexplicable charm. I’m new at this. New to the heavenly but solid feel of your flesh in my arms, new to the way your…

More Time For Naps

By Stephanie My Christmas tree is still up. I do have a goal to take it down this week. Maybe even today. For real. There’s just been so many other things going on that have ranked higher on the priority list. Like napping. My boys’ school has a rule that when it’s your child’s birthday…

A Dose of Humor – Octamom, Clinical Vomitologist

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. When she’s not…

Midway

By Beck I know a lot of women expecting their first babies right now (like, NINE. What’s up, my fecund friends?), and so I’m surrounded by one of the things I find funniest in this whole world: expectant first-time parents. That combination of idealism – horribly misplaced idealism – and bravado and high, unrealistic expectations…

To Parent like Dumbledore

By Kelly My brother got me a set of Harry Potter books for Christmas. It was a good gift, seeing as I somehow managed to escape the whole Potter phenomenon. I had just been telling my husband that I would really like to read the series someday — which, now that I think about it,…