Monthly Archives: August 2009

What’s in YOUR Mom-Purse?

By Megan Back before I had kids, I used to buy purses based on their color. Their texture. The feel of the leather. The way they smelled. The way they added that perfect je ne sais quoi to an outfit. Now that I’m a wife and Mom, I select a handbag based on how big…

Her Spot on the Food Chain

By DeeDee My husband was out of town on business last week. The first night he was gone, Cailey came to visit me in the middle of dark thirty. “I had a bad dream…” Not waiting for a lengthy description, I escorted her back to her own bed in a hurry. Because that’s the kind…

A Dose of Humor – Definitely Smarter than an Eighth Grader

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. Now you can…

Cruel Summer

By Beck “In headaches and in worry, vaguely life leaks away,” wrote W.H. Auden. And that is how life is feeling these days for me – leaking away while I fret over things, the seasons flitting dully past. This has been a rainy, muted summer, not full of our usual beach trips and happy farm…

Brotherly Love

By Kelly I carry the baby from the bathroom. She’s wrapped in a hooded towel like a plump, wet burrito. Her brother, wrapped in his own towel combo, trails behind and makes the following announcement about his sister. “Mom, tomorrow night, I’m going to marry Teyla.” I pause. It’s true that my family tree can…

Lesson Learned

By Veronica The advice that other parents and grandparents give – “cherish every moment, because it will all be over too soon” – can inspire a quiet rage in me. That advice is easy to give, but impossible to follow when you haven’t brushed your teeth in 36 hours because when your vomiting dictator allows…

Be Still Life

By Megan The pages of my life turn so fast. I lay in my bed this morning while the smallest napped, and thought of yesterday, sweet yesterday in the park, already a chapter gone by. Everything’s ticking, ticking, ticking; even the hums and drones and whirs of everyday life measure the bars of this family’s…

Empty Spaces

By Mary A while ago a friend and I were talking about balance in life, and the curse of busyness. She was gently suggesting that perhaps my life would be easier if I left some open spaces in my schedule, blanks where nothing needed to happen. I knew that she’d learned that wisdom through her…

A Dose of Humor – You’ve Got to be Kidding Me

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. Now you can…

The Luckiest

By Beck I wrote a guest post for 5 Minutes for Special Needs which is posted today, talking about my feelings about The Baby’s Celiac Disease. And I do have a lot of feelings about it – some good, some sad – and you should totally go read that post, but mainly I just feel…