To Ignore or Not Ignore, that is the question

Ding Ding. Round One.

Hey now now.
I’m all gimped up and sore wristy, because Max is so freakin heavy and strong now that I keep wrenching it when I pick him up. So these days, me and my muscley baby have been having SHOW DOWNS. I’ve started disciplining. Seriously. He’s 14 months old tomorrow and [...]

Holiday Truth

December always brings about a great deal of ambivalence for me. Actually, it starts in November but December is the real count down to Christmas. I hate it, I love it, I hate it, I love it, I resent it, I don’t want to give anyone a damn thing, I want to give [...]

And This Is Why and How I Carry On

So one of my goals in this thing called Parenting Small Children is to do things for myself whenever I can.  I’m acutely aware that children learn the most about how to live their lives by observing their models. Sure, sure, I do stuff for myself so I don’t go nutso living in only one [...]

The truth of Motherhood at 5:15 pm

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 [...]