At 5 Minutes For Parenting, we hope to share the real experiences of the “every Mom”. We all have our own struggles and flaws, but most remain unseen to the passing stranger or Mom at the playground. Imagine setting down those judgments and insecurities, and envision us holding each other up, no matter how different…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Almost
By Beck It is almost springtime here – the snowbanks are beginning to recede, leaving in their wake dog poop and Tim Hortons cups and deep muddy puddles that The Baby has been instructed not to jump in. Kersplash! she jumps. And brown water splashes all over the legs of a middle-aged woman walking by….
My daughter, the snail
By Kelly Teyla has a cold. That is to say, she’s become a snail. That’s the first stage of the rhinovirus in our house. The bubbling nose, the slimy trail of snot that leaves a silver streak on my jeans, my shirt, the couch, my basket of clean laundry. The river overwhelms all attempts to…
Buses and Bloggers: A Proposal
By Veronica Do you ever get weary of the wrangling and arguing on blogs? A week ago, a blog-friend and I considered having our own fake internet fight, but were too tired by real blog squabbling to even mock it adequately. All those people filled with pompous judgment can wear a reader out. So I…
Have to Admit I Started to Think I’d Made a Terrible Mistake When Jack the Dog Disappeared in the Creek
By Megan A good friend of mine, Alice, recently mentioned that she’s reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series to her four-year-old son. She’d told him about the book and sat down to read to him, allowing him to continue playing with some toys as she did so. She said he played for just…
Easily irritated or justified annoyance? You decide.
By Melodee Last night, while I rode my exercise bike and concentrated on the tiny print of Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady (which is taking forever to read) I may have been a little snippy when I asked my husband to, “TURN DOWN THE VOLUME!” of the television. He pointed out that I am…
A Dose of Humor – Why People Pay Money for Gym Memberships.
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. Katie is a…
Coffins
By Beck We went to a wake earlier this week, driving through freezing rain in the evening’s soggy darkness. We looked at my husband’s great-uncle, who was wearing his jacket from the business he ran with his children. “Dad” was embroidered on the jacket, which made me have to whip my head away, my eyes…
That’s Why They Call It The Present
By Kelly I was kneeling next to the couch yesterday, reaching for Sonya Lee, who had somehow managed to escape the Little People Amusement Park, when I felt a tiny body grab my neck. It was Teyla, my one-year-old daughter. She shrieked in laughter at my obvious surprise. She pushed herself flat against my back…
The Bathroom Is My Tuscany
By Veronica I have had a stressful day with meetings and whinings and the start of spring allergies, so here is a post from Toddled Dredge from 2006 – updated! I promise! It is still true, though my stamina for children has increased greatly since writing it. When I was single and struggled with occasional…