The other day, a friend shared a link on Facebook, to an article by Alissa at Creative with Kids. It was entitled You Know What Will Ruin My Kids? or Banishing the Should Mama I am such a “Should” Momma, at least in my head. I look around my house and think, “If I was a good Momma, we wouldn’t […]
For a couple who has learned to appreciate having a king sized bed for two folks and two pups, we sort of suprised ourselves by opting to cosleep with our son. Initially, it was because we lived in a camper and having him in our room otherwise was not possible. Then, it was because the […]
I fell asleep last night, while pondering many things. It is one of my blessings/shortcomings/whatever. I often think through and can solve problems. I am equally capable of obsessing over minute things and losing sleep. Last night, my thoughts made me laugh. I thought about how I really should blog about how my mind works. […]
I am sitting in my bed, with our newest arrival asleep in her cosleeper beside me and our little monkey watching Star Trek with my hubby in the loft. The screen occasionally blurs over, from my eyes clouding – a frequent occurrence when one wears contacts and gets little rest. Our little angel has been […]
Ambitious as I am, I’m not talking about potty training. What I am talking about is baby training. Until this point, I haven’t been much for “training” my little man. My approach has been to just respond to his needs as he has them and it has worked for the most part since I’m home […]
Some days I have hard decisions to make… push the limits of my child’s energy in order to accomplish something fun or important, or follow all of his cues and put of whatever-it-was for later. Tonite, I decided that despite my son not having had a nap for most of the afternoon, I’d push it […]
My little munchkin has never been easy to put to bed. I remember many an evening of singing at the top of my lungs to try to have him hear me over his screaming. He nurses and snuggles and relaxes until he realizes he’s falling asleep and then he starts to fight it, with all […]
I take a lot of photos. Not as many as I did when my son was first born. They are so much easier to photograph when they can’t squirm out of your arms or crawl away… or, for that matter, run. A startled baby responding to a flash is a completely different creature than a […]
