Confession: I have a crush on the library. Yes, the library, our library, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. I think about it when I’m away from it. I plan ways I can go to it and spend time there. I brag about it to my friends and family.
Why? Because I believe there is enough to go around and that your life can be just as enriched as mine. Permit me to tell you a few reasons why I am in serious like with the local library:
1. An oasis in the chaos.
Your local library branch offers a quiet refuge in the busyness of life. Tables in the children’s departments are set up with coloring pages and crayons. Computers at...
Last year, I threw my first ever "Galentine's Day" party. "What's Galentine's Day??," you ask.
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Don't worry, I didn't know anything about it until I binge-watched Parks and Rec while I was pregnant with my second son last year. Once I saw it, I knew I had to do it. An excuse to host some of my favorite gals? Yes please!
Here is what I did. First, a couple weeks before the party, I emailed all the husbands, fiances, or boyfriends of the women who were coming with these questions and strict instructions NOT to tell their partners:
What is your favorite sport?
Where did you go on your first date?
What is your favorite dinner that she makes?
What is her favorite pastime or...
“A-B-C-D…” well, you know the rest. The song played from my one year old daughter’s new magnetic alphabet bus toy as I picked up the letters off the floor again for the millionth time to put them back on the fridge. She was pressing the musical note button over and over, while spinning to the Alphabet and Wheels on the Bus. I had already showed her how to place a letter in the open spot on the bus and it would sing a little jingle about that letter. She was more interested in the noise those letters made as they hit the tile floor one by one and of course the songs.
Hi, my name is Jenny and I have...
Before my son was born, when the question came up as to whether or not I would breastfeed him, the answer was always a resounding YES! Breastfeeding was something I very much wanted to do for him. (Ha! Parenting is SO easy before you actually have a baby.)
Our son surprised us by coming almost six weeks early. I was still reading the pregnancy books and hadn't yet moved onto the "now-I-have-a-baby-what-the-heck-do-I-do?" books. Fortunately, he didn't have to spend any time in the NICU but as I worked through the shock that my baby was actually here, I also struggled to breastfeed.
The nurses and the lactation consultants kept telling me "He's a preemie; it will take him a little longer to figure it out,...
I’m not about to rattle off my list of unattainable expectations for myself for 2016. Am I totally opposed to New Year’s Resolutions? No. Sometimes it takes some goal-setting to turn a new leaf in our lives, to kick off the motivation. To find that refreshment. But do I also think an extensively numbered list of “to’s” leaves room for one to become disappointed in themselves when the early January drive inevitably fizzles out given some time? Yes.
Will I be dissatisfied in myself if I don’t lose the 10 pounds by March? It’s likely. Will I feel like a failure the first time I give into the Big Mac in April (or February) after committing to an all-organic diet? Probably....
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