When I was a child, I used to think that we were born into our families in order to be our parents’ servants. Y’know, child labour. No really, I really DID think that was my purpose for being alive, to serve these big people. Just a straggling [...]
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SO TIred. is how i feel. And how I’ve felt much of this year. I know I’m a broken record to people who ask, but it is what it is right now. Max is now one year old and still wakes up at 4:30 in the morning expecting me to come and help him [...] A few mornings ago, my 6 yr old kid Lula and her friend were discussing ‘family’ on the drive to school. They discovered that they both have cousins from Edmonton named Mackenzie, then Lula decides to discuss RACE and was like, “my Mom’s side is Chinese, and my dad’s side is……(she trails off, tries a [...] My daughter Lula has this ritual at bedtime. Just as we are about to make the escape from her room and close that door behind us, she calls out, “Can you stay with me for just one minute?” and anyone with a brain knows what that means, and when we agree because we have accepted that [...] If any of you are stay at home mothers, and have just spent all day long (10 plus hours) alone with your young children, engaging, playing, soothing, teaching, cleaning and picking up after them and picking them up, I get that you want to scream and I get that you want to cry and [...] |
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