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Co-sleeping with Rabid Monkeys
Co-sleeping. Family bed. The literature is out there, and so are the anecdotes. My second husband was from India and I remember that he slept with his parents until 7th grade. Some of this was due to available space in his parent’s home, but it is also just more widely accepted in India to co-sleep.…
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Daycare Recap: Momma, I Found a Sausage in My Chicken
I really love my kids’ daycare. When I first enrolled my son, I couldn’t imagine how I would pay the weekly fees. Now, 5 years and one more child later, I have come to learn that it is one of the more affordable daycares in the area. I have invested tens of thousands of dollars…
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How Nail Shellac Allows Me to Live a Fantasy and Other Self Care Strategies
Self care: so elusive for parents. It’s like the Northern Lights or Haley’s Comet. Especially when there are so many things competing for our self care time, which comes along as often as Haley’s Comet. Here are some self care practices I’ve engaged in over the past year and my thoughts about their effectiveness when it…
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6 Tips for Traveling with Toddlers
1. Make them carry their own luggage. They will learn to appreciate the art of packing light and identifying only the necessities for travel. This also allows momma to pack 4 extra pairs of shoes to ensure proper footwear for all occasions. 2. Download hours of TV programming for the flight. If you have a…
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5 Forbidden Things to Say to a Complete Stranger (Me) with Children
Have you ever been at the mall or the grocery store, or maybe a birthday party, and a total stranger and asks you an extremely personal, sometimes offensive or painful question? Parents of adopted children, adults who have chosen not to have children, single moms, by choice or not, and parents of two (or more) different…
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5 Reasons to Wait Until You are at Advanced Maternal Age to Have Children
I didn’t fully commit to the idea of having kids until I was in my mid-30s. At this point I had already reached a period called “advanced maternal age” and when I became pregnant, it was called an “at-risk pregnancy.” Needless to say, while my own doctor was cool as a cucumber about my risky…
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Parenting Bloggers: 3 Ways to Use Quantities in Your Blog Title to Make It More Appealing
I’ve been reading a lot of blogs over the past few weeks because my own creativity has gone on sabbatical. Two blog characteristics that have jumped out to me, which are not rocket science, but interesting to a new blogger like myself are: 1. Blogs that state a specific problem in the title that I would…
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Walking With Spiders
“I’m going to go to Colorado where the spiders live. I’m going to take them for a walk. I am going to take them to people’s homes who don’t have spiders as pets. And you are going to miss me. And be really, really, really sad.” …
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Beware…the Weekend is Here.
It is Saturday morning at 10. Every Saturday morning I drop my kids off with our beloved Grandma Sosa. Grandma Sosa might have been a saint in her previous life, I’m not sure. I’ve been dropping them off there for about 3 years. It is my time, for a precious 4 hours, to do stuff…
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If Bedtime Sucks One More Time, I Will Eat Your Ears
I am a sucker for second chances, third chances, fourth chances… In every aspect of my life. Naturally, my kids had this figured out in the first 48 hours of life. And instead of decreasing my tolerance for chance giving, I choose to stress out and create more ridiculous consequences in my mind, hoping one…
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