parenting

When you just want your mom (or dad).

June 18, 2013

Me and my own girl Most of the time, I embrace the fact that I didn’t have the “typical” family experience growing up. Sometimes that’s not the case. I just want to take this time to be completely honest and say I wish my mother was more like a typical mom right now. I always [...]

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Watching out for the mommy trolls.

May 30, 2013

This is something I’ve said in person to many a friend but something I haven’t ever really talked about online. I never really noticed it until I became pregnant with Bluebelle, but after then it became a glaring blip on my social media radar (especially Facebook). I think women get a kick out of torturing [...]

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The face of motherhood

May 11, 2013

As I sat at my friend’s house this morning and I scrolled through my Facebook feed, I saw the pictures of my friends’ mothers and grandmothers littered throughout. Of beautiful women who raised them. As I saw the digital captures of old film photos of younger, smiling faces and era stricken clothing, I was struck [...]

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3 years ago, I became a mom.

April 5, 2013

Three years ago, I thought I knew what I was getting into. I had read books, taken classes, and watched countless videos. And then you were born. Suddenly, I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t know how I could function with you outside of me. You were so perfect and fragile. I couldn’t bear to let you [...]

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Our trip to the ER

March 5, 2013

This has been an exhausting time. I will fill you in on more details this week — but I’ve been out of town taking care of stuff, burning the candle at both ends. I’m tired and ready to rest — but that’s not the post for today. Last night as we were all getting ready [...]

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I became a connoisseur of children’s TV.

January 31, 2013

Go ahead, call me a bad parent now, but we have watched a lot more TV since we moved into this apartment. I use the TV for noise most days and since B is in the room, I try to keep it on kid-friendly channels. Bluebelle doesn’t watch it all day long, but it doesn’t [...]

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I have been called to serve my family. I mean, really.

January 30, 2013

(Photo courtesy of miss pupik on flickr) Do you ever feel under-appreciated? I’ll admit I do. I often feel like I run the same race every day. Maybe we all feel that way? I read recently that being a parent feels like you’ll never get an A+ again, and often I feel that way. I wash [...]

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Becoming a preschooler.

January 17, 2013

We’ve hit a bit of a rough stage here lately with Bluebelle. Don’t get me wrong, we are in a fun stage as well, but isn’t that the caveat of childhood milestones? You get both with every stage? That’s my experience, anyway. The wonderful things about her current stage is that she’s a problem solver. [...]

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I am worthy of my job.

January 3, 2013

Since I was a little girl, I had a plan for my future. It looked like this: graduate high school, go to college, have a career, get married, and become a stay at home mom when the time came. It happened exactly as I had planned. I graduated in the top 10 percent of my [...]

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Signs my child is getting too big.

December 6, 2012

(B completely dressed herself for bed. Flipflops and all.) Let me begin by saying this: The child is two and a half. Seriously. She’s TWO. It blows my mind how she’s still a “baby” but still so big! Bluebelle has gone through a massive growth spurt lately. A little of it has been size, but [...]