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…
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Worst mother alive
By Cassie I have been home with Aiden for exactly a month. Going into this I thought this would be a great bonding experience. A month home all day just me and Aiden. I had all these ideas of the things we would accomplish. The cleaning that would get done. The activities I would plan….
“I am made of wood,” said Tottie. “Good wood.”
By Beck You’ve no doubt seen the ads for them in women’s magazines, those creepily realistic wrinkled baby dolls that can be bought in installments, although I have no IDEA who buys them. No one I know, anyhow, and I know people who collect almost anything: antique poison bottles, taxidermied animals, old playing cards, chipped…
Uh-oh
By Kelly Teyla, who will be one on Friday, is attempting her first word this week. It’s “uh-oh.” That scares me, just a little. My intuition tells me this is the child who will necessitate Christmas cards sent annually to the emergency room staff. This is the child who will attempt to cut her own…
Sweetpea Sleeps
By Veronica My daughter Sweetpea dropped the regular nap last fall. There were too many afternoons where I would open her door after “naptime” only to find that she had spent the entire hour bouncing on her bed. We sighed, resigned ourselves to her new maturity, and stopped putting her down for naps (though she…
Embracing the Unknown, But Knowing the One Who Knows
By Megan My sweet husband sent me away overnight to a spa last night, sort out of the blue, with zero regard for my blogging commitments, darn him, so I’m posting from my archives today. I am not, let me repeat, I AM NOT PREGNANT AGAIN. Thank you and have a wonderful day, y’all! “God,…
The Strawberry
By Tina Somewhere along the way, in the bumpy course of my life, my eyes had become crusted over with the cynical smog and gunk and goo of the world. Bad news for an artist. I had just stopped seeing the exquisite surprises that God puts in my path every day. And I didn’t even…
A Dose of Humor – You’ve got WHAT on your hands?!?
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. Today’s writer is…
Head Over Heels
By Cassie Somehow whenever my friends and I get together we end up talking about motherhood. I know mothers usually do talk about motherhood! However, none of my friends are mothers or fathers for that matter. Their curiosity about the whole event astounds me. Most of them assure me that they never wish to have…
All Things Are New
By Beck By the time you read this, it will be 2009, although right now while I am writing this it is still the very dregs of 2008 and all of my kids have feverish, snotty colds and we’re watching Wall-E and eating appetizers – the usual New Year’s Eve pattern for us. Even with…