Archive for the ‘Parenting’ Category

Who needs sleep? Not I.

I haven’t been sleeping.
For a while now.
Laurelyn has started waking up every night, in the same pattern. She doesn’t wake me up the way most babies do. It’s not the quiet fussing that gently wakes you and makes you aware that there is a baby in your house. I mean the kind [...]

Recitation…in a bad way.

I am moving out of the baby stage. The stage where everything is cute and worth aw-ing over. The stage where we talk about the color and consistency of poop and where how little sleep you get is something worth bragging about.
I am now in the big kid stage. I’m still learning how to maneuver [...]

My first kiss

A girlfriend of mine was telling me about a scene she saw at the school. The bell had just rung and the kids were filing out of the school when a little boy walked by holding a little girls hand. He walked over to his van, kissed the girl on the cheek and said goodbye [...]

Have you got the time?

One of the Wine Sisters (neighbors that I have become friends with. They drink a lot of wine, hence the name.) came over today to visit. I had just gotten back from my morning exercise class and was helping the kids to get their math finished, which I started with them before I left. My [...]

Fierce Mamas

My girlfriend, Bonnie, sent me the link to this post. It’s heartbreaking, uplifting and empowering all in one short description of a mother’s fight to help her baby. I love stories like this. It makes me proud to be a woman and a mother.
I want to be a fierce mama so I browsed through the [...]