As moms, we tend to cling desperately to those magical years when Santa is real and a stuffed elf does anything but sit on a shelf. But our children grow older and we are faced with the changing landscape of the holidays. Do we tell them the “truth,” or do we assume they know already? Do we cross our fingers and hope their peers don’t make fun of them for fervently believing? Or do we adopt the policy of my college roommate’s mom and double down – even into adulthood - saying “if you don’t believe, you won’t receive?”
I’ve been hit hard with holiday fatigue. I’ve grown tired of the charade after 13 years of being the sole person...
Tonight, I’m tired...
I’m tired of the laundry. I’m tired of "momming." I’m tired of having full responsibility of my children. I’m tired of making sure that everyone’s fed. I’m tired of making sure that everybody’s teeth have been brushed. I’m tired of making sure that everybody has lunch for tomorrow. I’m tired of politics. I’m tired of this pandemic. I’m tired of hurricanes in the gulf. I’m tired of my children falling and getting hurt. I’m tired of bath time. I’m tired of bedtime. I’m tired of reading stories. I’m tired of cleaning the house. I’m tired of watching what I eat. I’m tired of driving everywhere. I’m tired of carpool. I’m tired of waiting for the bus. I’m...
I am a mom of four young kids. I do not consider myself an expert by any means but I am all kids all the time. So I decided to write about some things you may or may not know about having 2 or more kids under one roof!
1. The Screaming::
It’s loud all the time and if it isn’t-someone is doing something they should not be doing! There is screaming outside, inside, at each other, at themselves, in the shower, and in the bathtub! They scream because someone looks at them or someone touches their toys. They scream when they’re mad or when they’re happy, they scream when they are sad! They scream for any and everything. All. The....
As we prepared our now three year old for her first days in pre-K3, I would play Daniel Tiger’s song “Grown-Ups Come Back” on repeat. We hadn’t spent enough time in church nurseries or MDO programs for her to really grasp the concept of getting dropped off anywhere without us.
It goes like this:
Even when we go away
Grown-ups come back
Will you pick me up when I go to school?
Yep, at the end of day because that's the rule
Grown-ups come back
Grown-ups come back to you
Grown-ups come back they do
Grown-ups come back
I’ll never forget her first day and how incredibly bizarre it felt to join a carpool line for my own child. We played the song over and over as I made...
So here is a fair *Trigger warning* ... these words may incite rage, goosebumps or uncontrollable tears. Can we all agree that the following words/phrases will not be joining us for 2021?! We are leaving these ratchet concepts behind in ratchet 2020. They are unwelcome in 2021.
Virtual
Synchronous/asynchronous
Exposure
Quarantine
Contagion
Infectious
Essential / non-essential
Symptomatic / asymptomatic
Transmissibility
Epidemic
Pandemic
Virus
Lockdown
Mask
Unprecedented
New normal
Trying times
Isolation
PPE
Spread
Outbreak
Endemic
Fever
Zoom
Social Distancing
Pod
Novel
Protocol
Y’all better start making use of a thesaurus because you won’t be able to “spread” your butter. Hercules won’t even be able to “Go the ‘distance.’” Better find a synonym for all of these!
What other words would you...
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