Let’s talk. Anyone else feel like the whispers start at your kid’s first birthday party? Y’all know the whispers. “Oh! She isn’t a baby anymore. Time for a new one!” WHAT?!? For the first time in a year, I can breathe. I can see a light at the end of the endless bottle cleaning. And you […]
It’s hard to be a mom. Can we all agree on that? Whether you’re a #StayAtHomeMom or a #WorkingMom, a #BoyMom or a #GirlMom, a #MomOfOne or #RunningACircus — #TheStruggleIsReal! As I write this, I’ve got one child eating non-organic, store-brand cornflakes with his fingers, and a toddler climbing up the back of a chair. […]
I want to begin this article with a painful premise. Before your kids turn eighteen—likely before high school—they almost certainly will see something you wish they hadn’t on an electronic device. It is going to happen on their iPod or Kindle or your iPhone or their friend’s computer or smart phone. It will happen at your […]
I can’t say how many times I played the conversation about that friendship over in my mind. I wrote letters that never got sent and imagined Facebook messages that never got typed. Yet, for years, it never happened. I never apologized to Lila. There were ten girls in my class from first grade all the […]
I think, as parents, we all have a few of these. Things that, in our naive pre-children days, we swore up and down that we would never do. Never ever. And if we happened to see or hear of a parent doing these terrible, horrible no-no’s? We may have even *gasp* judged them. Then? We had […]
A smart and beautiful eleven-year-old girl calls me mom. While relatively new to the Land of the Preteen, I have been taking copious mental notes. So now, I share with you my A to Z thoughts on what it means to be parenting preteen girls through these very tricky years. ALL — You will find […]
Congratulations! You have a baby! And it’s crying! It’s more exhausting than you ever imagined it could be! And your cousin, Anna? She totally lied to you when she told you were ready for this. Come on, Anna! Adjusting to motherhood is an insane amount of work. It can feel like your entire being has […]
IEP. Those three letters make most parents cringe. My short experience with developing my son’s IEP has been anything but enjoyable. An IEP, Individualized Education Plan, is a document for a public school child who requires special education. My son has autism and the public schools deemed him eligible for an IEP based on his […]
As a child, there were toy guns in my house. I never thought twice about them. I played with plenty of water guns in the summer. Frequently, I joined my little brother in Nerf gun battles in the winter after his Christmas bounty arrived. There were a few years when he was really into paintball. […]
Did you know that I used to be a giraffe keeper? One of the parts of my job was to train the giraffe. No, not to do tricks, but rather to participate in medical care, stand still during hoof trimmings, come to us when called. Wait a second….am I talking about giraffe or my toddlers? […]
