Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 17th, 2010
I received the following question from reader MCmomof3:
Does anyone have any advice for how to handle our sore-loser son? I keep thinking he’ll grow out of it, but this kid cannot handle losing or even getting behind. He comes from two go-getter parents who don’t give up until they’re beaten, so this [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 15th, 2010
Yesterday my kids surprised me with a cake. I mean, really surprised. Normally I catch on to their attempts to spring something on me, but this time, it went totally over my head.
“Logan wants cake. Do we have any cake mix?” Andie asked me yesterday afternoon, after they’d all come in from playing outside in [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 11th, 2010
Carmen, the kids’ grandma, is still with us. Being able to spend these extra days with her has been priceless; however, in some ways, it’s almost as if she is already gone because it seems like I’m often comforting one of my children as they cry for the loss of their grandma. Their grief manifests [...]
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 Miscellaneous on Jan 21st, 2010
Does anyone else have a child whose brain is so active that it just won’t turn off at night? Or maybe you also have this problem yourself, as I do. I haven’t found a solution for myself yet though, let alone for my 7-year-old, who reminds me very much of me as a child in [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 15th, 2010
Andie received a photo frame wrapped in felt for Christmas, so she decided to put a picture of me in it. I know, how sweet, right?
Turns out, she couldn’t find one. Not a single one. She came in my office, exasperated, and gave me a mini-lecture about how I don’t have enough pictures of myself [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 12th, 2010
If you are unfamiliar with the Type-A personality, I found a fairly succinct, albeit rather simplistic, definition: “Temperament characterized by excessive ambitiousness, aggressiveness, competitiveness, drive, impatience, need for control, focus on quantity over quality and unrealistic sense of urgency.”
Wow. Did the author of this sentence have Andie in the forefront of his/her mind when he/she [...]
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 Giveaways!, Miscellaneous on Jan 7th, 2010
After my last three posts about why I hate my uterus, I think it’s time for something a little lighter.
So I’m doing a giveaway, and of course, like all my giveaways, it’s very cool.
I was pleasantly surprised to receive a box full of Wikki Stix samples shortly before Christmas. If you haven’t heard of Wikki [...]
Posted in Health, Miscellaneous on Jan 6th, 2010
Continuing the diatribe against my rebelling womb:
Why am I so reluctant to give my protesting uterus up? If only this simple question had a simple answer. Is it pride? A fear of losing control? Sadness? Fantasy? Narcissism?
Like females I’ve seen in movies and read about in books who, upon hitting menopause, feel their worth as [...]
