Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on May 21st, 2010
I just found this among my many saved drafts from November 2008, when Logan was still in preschool. Now, a year and a half later, it’s a precious memory, rather than a complaint/reflection. The days Logan isn’t in school, he follows me pretty much everywhere, all day, and never stops talking. If I’m working in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
