Perspectives in Parenting

Have you ever had those days when you think if anyone saw me right now, they’d nominate me for the “Worst Parent of the Year” award or pity me because only clinically insane people deal with this stuff? Let me keep it real for you and let you in on a small portion of our week! My daughter yelled at me so loudly in the library that it drew in quite a large audience and it took everything I had to not become a hulk mom in front of said audience. Oh, you're wondering why she screamed at me? I put too much glue on her storytime craft... Just yesterday, I let my kids have candy for breakfast because that’s all I...

On Being a Wife My mother thrived on drama, so it stands to reason that this would overflow into her marriage. Anytime that there was a hint of a reason for her to fight, she used it. I was never witness to a healthy marriage while growing up, and to this day, I have to guess if I am doing marriage correctly. I have learned that you work through marriage, mainly on emotions, not manipulation. On Being a Mother I have shared some of my experiences with my mother HERE. She was mentally unhealthy, and as a child, I feared her. I never felt love from her (or towards anyone, for that matter), so I took the little attention she did give...

There are playdates, pregnancy groups, and mommy groups of many kinds. I see them at parks or whenever I’m scrolling my newsfeed on Facebook. I think that’s awesome, after all- giving birth is some WORK, y’all. It takes its toll on the body, on the spirit, and on self-confidence. Afterward, we mamas have months of sleepless nights, leaky breasts, and crying babies. We hear going into motherhood how HARD pregnancy can be, newborns can be, toddlers can be, and then we quickly discover that everybody was right as soon as our babies hit all of those milestones. There’s just a part of parenthood that isn’t talked about as much, and I’ve yet to see any support groups for it… TEENAGERS. RAISING TEENAGERS IS HARD AF. Give...

As newlyweds, my husband and I had a couple of pets, but they were inherited from our parents. We loved and cared for them, and they were like parts of childhood that transitioned with us to married life. A few years after we got married, both of our childhood pets died. After we had children we still had some pets, but they were super-low maintenance. We basically had beta fish for years, and we were content with that. As a new mom, if we were going to have a pet, it needed to be pretty indestructible and easy to care for. When we had two children, I declared that I was at my current max for caring for living...

On October 4, 2019, our family said goodbye to my dear grandmother. She was 89 years young and had lived a long and full life. But this post is not about her. Not really. You see, in the days leading up to the funeral, the family got together to select photographs from her life to put in a slideshow that would be playing during visitation. We had a limit of 100-125 photographs. My grandmother had 11 siblings, 5 children, 9 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. Can you imagine the hundreds (if not thousands) of photographs that exist with her in them? It seemed like a monumental task going through everyone's favorite pictures and trying to include everyone while also showing pictures that spanned...