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 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 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 [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Health, Miscellaneous on Jan 5th, 2010
¤¤¤ Warning — if you are of the male persuasion, you may want to click elsewhere, unless you don’t mind reading about uteruses and their miraculous functions. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. ¤¤¤
When I said in my first post of 2010 that I plan to be more honest and personal in my blogging this [...]
Posted in Holidays, Miscellaneous on Jan 2nd, 2010
One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2010 is to be more honest and personal in my blogging. There are several subjects I’ve been wanting to tackle that are going to require depth, courage and exposing some of my most raw feelings. While this is daunting for several reasons, I’m generally a very open person, [...]
Posted in Holidays, Miscellaneous on Dec 31st, 2009
New Years: A time of renewal, of starting over, of somehow making life better. At least that’s what we tell ourselves. God knows we all need a fresh start from time to time, the hope that we can be better people, better parents, better in our businesses, maybe even, gulp, happier than we’ve been in [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 31st, 2009
As I predicted earlier, we’re getting tired of all this forced togetherness, despite having gotten out for the afternoon and evening yesterday. The kids’ sickness doesn’t help the overall mood of crankiness at all either.
A few of the highs and lows this vacation:
High: The kids begged me to let them all sleep in Logan’s room [...]
