This parenting thing is hard. Some days I feel as if I am on the verge of having a good old fashioned melt down, just like my three-year-old does when we try to put shoes and socks on his precious, tender feet. With three kids I feel like it can never be smooth sailing with […]
Melt Down
November 26th, 2008 · 8 Comments
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8 Ways Parenting Is Not Like Real Life
August 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments
In real life you get to change jobs. In parenting your job changes you. (You thought I was going to say, “you get to change diapers”, didn’t you?)
In real life you get a salary. In parenting you try to serve celery.
In real life you wonder whether anyone likes you. In parenting you know […]
The “Other” Mothers-
Watch Out Surburbia, Here They Come
July 15th, 2008 · 6 Comments
They’re out there. Those “other” mothers. The ones with the perfectly pressed locks, bangs never out of place who just seem so, well, together. They are the moms that I imagine must have been those lucky creatures who glowed during pregnancy, who pushed twice and gave birth to a baby with a […]
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