File under: oops. This morning, as Jonah was squirming, fighting, crying while I tried to put him in his jumperoo — just so I wouldn’t have to follow him up the stairs over and over for the next 20 minutes,…
Month: October 2008
“We” are family
Bridezillas, John Edwards’ Crossing Over, and me. I hinted at this a little while back, and now, here it is… My new mommy blogging gig went live today at WeTV.com: http://www.wetv.com/blogs/mama-drama/index.html http://www.wetv.com/moms/index.html I’ll still be here, most days. Twice a…
panic parenting
So, I’m reading more about this peaceful parenting thing — and you know how things sometimes get mixed up in your head in a really Freudian way? I keep calling it perfection parenting which isn’t exactly helpful as far as…
drool me a river
Man, this fluid is… flu-id! The boy’s top two teeth, center, have poked through, the two flanking are sliding into position, and his shirts are soaked through. I decided a long time ago to pretend it’s my saliva anyway, and…
the conclusion: lessons in compassion
First of all, let me say, I am bookmarking the comments from the previous post — nay! — I am printing them out POSTER SIZE and putting them up on the wall. I asked for support when I was feeling…
the thing i wasn’t going to write about
I’ve been having a hard time blogging lately. Did you miss me? This THING happened recently, and I haven’t been able to get past it. Someone whom I made angry decided to use what she knows of me from reading…
farm, stairs, no-ooo-oo
Overdue report from the Hoes Down Festival: There were fiddling kids: Old timey blacksmiths: Cows: And best of all, the petting zoo: * * * Milestone report: Over the last three days, Jonah has begun climbing stairs. And so I’ve…
blogging the scraps
Bits and tidbits floating around in my head on mental scraps of paper. In the last week, Jonah has added a whole new expressive sound to his repertoire: “Ohh-oh?” He says it in a musical down-up melody. Usually when he’s…