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My 4 Words for Motherhood are Relentless, Chaos, Perseverance, & Confusion. But motherhood would never ask you to not be you. It asks you to be a better you. To be brave, to impress, and to trust yourself. To make a plan you’d be proud to accomplish and then stay the course and see what happens. Even in Summer! You are the best mother when you rise up be a hero for both them and you. Being human, falling down and getting back up is a very noble process and one we owe ourselves and our children a chance to see us grab and run with.
Sometime ago, I was on Pinterest and came across some fabulous image that I pinned. I must have then followed the image to its home where I found Suzonne Stirling’s delightful blog, Urban Comfort. Suzonne is a professional magazine stylist with an amazing ability to work on multiple holiday decoration projects simultaneously at the wrong…
Around the world, many families are cared for by a stay at home caretaker or housewife or husband. I am one by both default and by choice. I was unwilling to work only to pay for childcare so I am focusing on my writing career and blog and am in charge of our children and…
The kids and I were in the kitchen as we usually are most days at some point. Fiona was in the playpen and Eamon was doing whatever 8 year-olds do in that spastic way that they do them. But Fiona wasn’t feeling like she really wanted to have her freedom restrained by that playpen. And…
Like in earlier years, the week of Martin Luther King’s Birthday holiday nearly took me out of the game. I had prepared myself for the agonizing three-day weekend. But was ill prepared for the surprise snow days that created a 10 day holiday. I begged people for playdates with no results. My kid got so…
This past Christmas of ’13, Eamon really wanted Beyblades. They are tops people and the Japanese animation artist have created an exciting video series around them. They battle and have really cool names and talk in really high excited voices not unlike Speed Racer episodes. So I happened to take video of him “ripping” Bey…
This is a piece I published on Divine Caroline two and a half years ago. Back when Eamon was an only child. My son is nearly nine now but I always liked this piece. So enjoy the rebroad. I really hope my six-year-old turns out sweet and functional. I am doubtful, especially when I realize…
“What is that in her hand? She just put it in her mouth”, my husbands says. “Oh, it looks like a cat toy”, I say. “You mean the thing that the cat has drooled on with his lick-butt cat mouth?”, he says. “Yup.” I’m just not as fussy as he is. Sacrifices are made for…
Having a baby inspires empowering choices we might never have made prior. Suddenly self-respect and self-love are ours to model, our parting gift to them. So I ask, how do we tell the truth about who we used to be and maintain our self-respecting Mommy-ness? Separate who we were from who we are and be…
So little boy brought this book and it’s sequel home. His brain was firing in all different exciting ways. Take note you parents of highly creative 8 year-olds, this book is super cool. Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger, seems to be some sort of creative paper-folding meets imaginary hero/bad guy pretending to be Star Wars…
I discovered from my Mom recently that when she was a child, she used to spend celebratory meals like Thanksgiving and Sunday Suppers, with her Aunt’s family. They lived within the same block in their rural Missouri town. Many people have these sorts of memories. Where I grew up, we didn’t have any family nearby….
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