A few months ago, I wrote about our struggle with whether to send our July baby to kindergarten or red-shirt her. We ultimately decided to go ahead and enroll her in kindergarten. After lots of in depth discussions with her daycare director and 2 months of speech therapy, we were confident that she was ready. It's been one month, and I'm even more certain that kindergarten was the right choice. Our daughter has learned so much, and we love her teachers and school. Thankfully, she's excited to go to school each day and has adjusted to her new school with no issues.
Me on the other hand? That's a different story. It turns out that I am the one who...
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My Mom Has Breast Cancer and I Feel Helpless
This is one of those posts that you dread writing - because you know you're going to have to unpack a lot of the feelings you're uncomfortable feeling because there's someone else out there that will relate. It's also a pretty selfish perspective so putting it ON THE INTERNET feels a little raw and gross but YOU'LL KNOW that I know so ... we'll all agree to start there.
My parents have been married for 43 years. They've lived in the same house for 39 of them. Not super-big on change, my folks. Last year, their house flooded with almost six...
Maxwell Gruver. That name kept me awake at night. Prior to becoming a mom, I would have heard Maxwell’s story, then brushed it aside with a shrug of the shoulder and a “oh, that’s sad” comment.
My life now falls somewhere on the spectrum of remembering how easily it could have been to die at the hands of collegiate peer pressure mixed in with alcohol and bad decisions versus the mom in me feeling rage and sadness at this senseless death.
Maxwell Gruver died one night at a fraternity party. The details are still unknown, but what we do know is that Maxwell was in his freshman year of college. I imagine that his parents delivered him to campus with high...
Co-sleeping: Safe, Healthy, and Right for My Family
Of all the things that moms struggle with, sleeping seems to be pretty high up on the list. It seems that barely a day goes by when I don’t hear or read about a mom lamenting her lack of sleep or asking for sleep advice. We have strategies, and terms for our strategies: CIO (Cry it out), Ferber Method, The Comfort Cycle, Babywise, and many more.
Compounding the confusion is a litany of conflicting advice. Babies need to sleep in their own cribs. Babies should sleep through the night. Babies need to eat every three hours at night. Co-sleeping is biologically natural. Co-sleeping causes SIDs. Lay babies on their backs to sleep. Your...
At dinner most nights, we play "The Question Game," where everyone takes turns asking a question that the entire table has to answer.
One night, I asked, "What is one thing you would like for Mommy and Daddy to do more?"
My four year old paused and then responded, "I want Daddy to read more books to me. And play more board games with me, too." Then she looked at me and said, "I want my mommy to get her haircut more."
I laughed, because I had just gotten my hair cut the weekend before on my birthday, for the first time in probably a year (and a half? 2 years? who knows). Clearly, it was just a recent activity. Then she made...
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