Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on Jan 28th, 2010
OK, so you probably haven’t even noticed that I’ve been gone for the past week, but just in case you have, I promise, my excuse is good. My former mother-in-law, my kids’ grandma and a woman who is in many ways like a mother to me, is at the end of her 10-year-long battle with [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous, Reflections on Jan 11th, 2010
I sometimes have visions of my children, decades from now, in grueling therapy sessions, trying to come to terms with everything I did wrong as a mother. I worry about all the ways in which I might be scarring them for life: What needs am I not meeting? Do they all feel loved enough? Who [...]
Posted in Reflections on Dec 7th, 2009
I have been reminded again of what’s really important in life.
One of my dear college friends informed me tonight that his 5-year-old son, just a month younger than Logan, has a brain tumor. He and his wife just found out yesterday, after a couple weeks of the little guy complaining of headaches and not walking [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on Sep 5th, 2009
Yesterday afternoon I left to meet my sister and nephew in town, which is about 35 miles away. I was excited, thinking about the baby fix I was soon going to get.
Approximately 16 miles down the road, I got an urgent text message from the kids: “Remy killed Tiger!”
Remy is our little Yorkie-Poo and Tiger [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on Jul 13th, 2009
Yesterday I was struck hard by baby fever once again. I wrote about my last major case in December of last year. This one was much, much worse, probably due to the fact that I actually got to hold the baby rather than simply looking at one on TV.
My kids have a new baby cousin, [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 3rd, 2009
I figured out early that once I got through the zombie-inducing months of nighttime feedings, having twins was actually easier than having just one baby. It sounds crazy and I never would have thought so, but it’s surprisingly true. I watched my sister several years later dealing with an only child who seemed far more [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on Apr 21st, 2009
I’m not going to lie and say that I love every moment of being a mom. Maybe that makes me a bad parent in some people’s eyes, but I think if she’s being honest with herself, almost every mom would agree with me, even if only secretly.
Having kids does not necessarily equate happiness. Most of [...]
Posted in Reflections on Nov 21st, 2008
Once upon a time, our TV only received three channels, the most watched of which was the blissfully commercial-free PBS. Since I don’t watch much TV myself, not having 100 different channels to pick from was just fine with me. Even better, my daughters had no clue who SpongeBob or other non-PBS-related characters were, and [...]
Posted in Reflections on Oct 8th, 2008
You’re inexplicably thrilled beyond measure with the bargain deal you got on four huge bags stuffed with clothes at Kmart.
I never thought about this much, despite the many bargains I’ve discovered as a parent, until about a month ago when I arrived at the check-out stand with my overflowing cart.
The check-out girl was young, maybe [...]
Posted in Reflections on Sep 4th, 2008
My daughters have been reading for about five years now, long enough for me to have written them quite a few notes and emails.
Even so, signing off on the aforementioned missives still feels about as strange to me as it would be to look in the mirror and see the face of an old woman rather than [...]
