- December 23, 2011
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- Joel, Parenting/Family
Confession: I like my kids
Pin itI have spent a fair amount of time here opening up about the difficulties of motherhood. I mean, kids are work. Not just physical, but who knew how much of an EMOTIONAL toll motherhood would take. I don’t just worry about the here and now, but I spend a lot of time worrying about [...]
- November 28, 2011
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- Lucy, Parenting/Family
Her two left feet… I mean SHOES.
Pin itLiterally. Ish. Actually… Two left SHOES. Before I became a mom I assumed I’d hit lows. I just had no idea that a day would come where my husband would call up the stairs and say, Hey Jenny? These shoes you want Lucy to wear… they’re both left feet. In which case I find [...]
Dare I Tell You I Left My Kid(s) Home Alone?
Pin itI guess I just did. I left my older 2 home while I took Young Lucy to a birthday party… to the home of adults I had not met. I had to go. This is what mothers do. We do not drop our kids off at the homes of strangers. Except I did. It had [...]
Choose Your Battles: The one about how I said guns are O.K. Ish.
Pin itAlternately titled: The Hill I Chose to NOT Die On: Gun Control Alternatelyly titled: I have a boy, and sticks and stones may break my bones, and other creative uses… Alternativelylyly titled: Give a kid a fish duct tape, a toilet paper tube and freedom to collect sticks in the yard with his buddies, [...]
A Few Words on Parenting and Blogging and Also Me
Pin itI get asked lots of questions about blogging, which I now see is a series of posts in and of itself… all of which have been done in many ways, shapes and forms by other bloggers across the interwebz. But we all have our own voice, philosophy and way we breakdown any number of [...]
My Takeaway: Parenting
Pin itI am going to start a new series titled, My Takeaway. Why? Because the word “takeaway” seems to be hotter than double rainbows right now, and I am all about being relevant for the time, so… a series on topical “takeaways” it is. Since I am 11 years into this whole parenting gig, I [...]
