Monthly Archive: December 2009

Can I be brutally honest here? This is freaking hard. Unbelievably so at times, for example, today. I love my children. I wanted to be a mother from the time I first realized that it was an option. I remember my mother being pregnant with my sister when I was five years old and being …

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I really like having Jess at home. Which makes me think, more and more, that I would have loved homeschooling. I know all the reasons that I send her to school – because I do believe that our goal as parents is to teach them to be adults, to give them opportunities to learn and …

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Sam hanging next to the tree Lilli, Sam, Jessie, Glennys (everyone’s best friend and my fifth child) and Sarah I love this smile

I love January. I just do – I hate the weather, but it’s the month of birthdays in my world, and it’s been my favorite month since I was a little girl. Although, now that I think of it, neither of my children, neither of my stepdaughters, nor my husband have January birthdays. But when …

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I read a really good book this weekend – can’t put my hands on it right now to tell you the title or author – but it was all about the orgins of Christmas and what the different traditions were about. Christmas has been a big topic for me over the past couple of years, …

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This was a really nice year for holidays. We switched up tradition, my cousin Becky and I had been celebrating Christmas Eve together for the past fourteen years, first with an Open House at our apartment that we shared for eight years, and then at her house after that. This year, we decided to get …

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Hot tea might be the trick… I started to crash, exhaustion-wise, mid afternoon again. This time, instead of just suffering and trudging to bed at seven (since Marc won’t be home until after nine tonight), I went for a hot cup of decaf tea. And while I don’t feel up to running a marathon, I’m …

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Sam doesn’t throw the temper tantrums that Jess does… he’s a much more even tempered sort of child. But when he does… wow. And although I was bragging earlier about how well weaning went – being able to nurse him down from a tantrum was so amazingly useful. I really missed being able to do …

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I might be jumping the gun a little bit – but think I can safely say that we’re almost entirely done nursing. YAY! I’m so proud of going for as long as I have (he’s almost three and a half) and so thrilled that we did it peacefully and on terms that we can both …

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I think so. My family is mostly a hodge-podge of pagan and wiccan – sure, we’ve got our vaguely Catholic branches, but my immediate family (specifically my mother) all proudly self-identify as witches and are firm believers in our ability to affect change in our world. Stuff like arranging for a parking space at the …

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