Monthly Archives: October 2009

Our Doubts are Traitors and Make us Lose the Good We Oft Might Win. . .

by Rachel . . .Yes, I actually just quoted Shakespeare. It’s okay, you don’t have to clap. My child is two years and two months old. She still sleeps with a paci. She ONLY gets it for sleep – and has since 9 months old. However, I’ve been feeling guilty about her still having it…

Trick Or Treat

By Beck “I want to be a jellyfish for Halloween,” The Baby announced, which only gave me a moment’s pause. Okay! I said. Be a jellyfish. That would be awesome. A few minutes later, I was flipping through the family magazine she’d been reading and found the jellyfish costume that had inspired her, and was…

Pregnancy Journal: “Morning” Sickness

By Kelly Welcome back to the Pregnancy Journal here at 5 Minutes for Parenting. You can find more information about this project here. You know those medical professionals who say each pregnancy is different? Hogwash. In my experience, it’s hogwash. Each of my pregnancies – and this is my fifth – have been identical. I…

My Sunday-Go-To-Meetin’ Shirt

By Veronica Like many mothers on a budget, I don’t spend much money on my appearance. I have four daughters to clothe – and they look so adorable in those clothes – so I would rather buy dresses for them than one for myself. On Sundays, they go to church dressed in childish finery, while…

The Downish Side of Delaying or Opting Out of Vaccinations, Although I am Very Much Still on the Side of Healthy Caution

By Megan It was one of those weekends that’ll leave you wandering around in your baggy pajama bottoms muttering to yourself by Sunday late-afternoon. One of those weekends that you look back on and think, yep, that was a “what-doesn’t-kill-you-makes-you-stronger” situation, is what that was. And it was. And we’re still alive, so I’m assuming…

It’s there.

By Stephanie I was talking to a friend, sharing a certain experience and trying to grow through my feelings, about the letting go of past hurts, past circumstances. Sometimes do you think that holding on to the hurt can be more painful than the hurt? It feels that way sometimes. It clouds the mind. It…

Dose of Humor – Levels of Neatness and the Efficiency of Disarray

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. It’s me, Rachel,…

Thankful

By Beck Canadian Thanksgiving is this upcoming weekend. I like the mid-October date for Canadian festivities, but feel rather wistfully that Americans have a fairly good idea in putting the holiday in late November instead – November is short on cheerful holidays AND it makes a nice kick-off to the holiday season as a whole. …

Pregnancy Journal

By Kelly Women, as a collective, share many things. Stories about buying our first bra, getting our first period and waiting for that high-school crush to call can unite a disparate group and cause instant camaraderie to well up. But nothing really touches the symbiotic topics of pregnancy and childbirth. It can ignite a firestorm…

The Sleep Log in My Eye

By Megan Oh, how I have judged, people. Nearly five years ago we had our first baby. Our Bean. Now Bean, like all newborns, came out thinking day was night and night was day and turned our world upside down by sleeping when we wanted her to eat, eating when we wanted her to sleep,…