It’s a topic that I’m kind of an expert on. I was raised by a mother with four of them, and I’ve got one of my own, in addition to two stepsisters. My cousin and best friend is truly an older sister to me – we’ve grown up together and I always count her as …
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May 15
Way Back Wednesday
(Here’s a post from May, 2008. Reading it made me smile, remembering my two year old Samilicious Boy. He’s grown up a lot in the past five years, but his personality is still the same.) Sam tried to bake his ducks Being the good mom, thought I’d whip up some cookies for my children. My …
May 14
Two steps forward, one step back
Julianna is weaning. Slowly, slowly, but I’m starting to see real progress towards her not nursing at all anymore. I initiated the process, but really wanted it to be as easy and non-traumatic as possible. I have miserable memories of weaning Sam. Part of it was that he was older than Julie, he was closer …
May 12
Mother’s Day
I’m thinking today about five people. My mother – she had turned twenty two the day before I was born. That boggles my mind now, because I had just turned twenty nine when I had Jessica. By the time she turned twenty nine, she was newly divorced, with four little kids, starting on a journey …
May 11
Playdate with Grammy
I’m consistently surprised by my youngest daughter. On a spectrum, she’s far and away better at separating from me. And that always catches me off guard. It’s so EASY to drop her off. She kisses me goodbye and its FINE. Jessie would be a bit weepy at her age. She’d be okay, she always settled …
May 08
This is really hard sometimes
I had a hard day yesterday. Not cripplingly hard, but just harried and rushed. I’m not used to being on the go all the time, I’m usually at home during the day. And while it shouldn’t make a huge difference, the fact that I was out and about all day, running errands and going to …
May 05
Birthday parties thru the years
This is not my first time around the merry go round. Today was my third third birthday party. And poor Julie – I promise that I don’t constantly compare you to your siblings, although it seems as though I do in this blog. But it’s more that here is where I come to be …
May 02
Discipline – and why I don’t like to talk about it
There was an article – http://www.telegram.com/article/20130430/NEWS/130429640&nocache=1 published the other day in the paper that brought up some interesting points. I’m not pro-spanking either, but I hated that article. I think that it was condescending and really talked down to parents. Normal parents don’t hate their children and hit them for fun, and they don’t do it …
May 02
Why I’d marry him all over again
Relationships are complicated. And there’s really no way to figure out what ties people together. Children and bank accounts, shared responsibilities and obligations. One thing I never doubt with Marc is that the two of us are a team, a partnership, working together towards the same goals. It’s been an absolute, undeniable reality from the …
Apr 28
I’d do it again in heartbeat.
It was my toughest pregnancy, by far. I ended up on nausea meds with my other two kids, but with Julianna, the morning sickness seemed worse. And the itching – oh God, the itching. My skin was so dry, and nothing seemed to help. I was contracting all the time, and I wanted to have …
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