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 Miscellaneous on Aug 31st, 2009
Sometimes people ask me how I do everything. Ha! As if I do everything. I’m so incredibly far from being on top of it all, which anyone who knows me in real life would completely and totally vouch for. Case in point: My floor is vacuumed, but my dishwasher is full of clean dishes while [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jun 8th, 2009
You know those times — the few but wonderful occasions where the kids are all playing together and getting along splendidly, when all is peaceful, before someone accidentally sticks his finger into his brother’s eye and the next fight inevitably breaks out. Aren’t those some of the moments that make our vocation as parents totally worth [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jun 3rd, 2009
OK, I admit it: I listen to the kids’ music even when they’re not in the car with me. Today I was headed to town by myself, blasting “High School Musical 2” and singing in that loud and obnoxious way you do when you’re alone. By the time Track 5 started though, it occurred to [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 30th, 2009
We had company last night, which meant that the kids got to bed way, way too late. And, as little kids are always prone to do, the boys both got up with the sun this morning, despite the extremely late hour of their retirement last night. I knew this was going to be a rough [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 28th, 2009
When I was first pregnant with my twin daughters, I couldn’t wait to find out the sex of “the baby.” At my first ultrasound, I found out I was having two babies and neither gender could be positively determined; however, the news that I was having twins completely eclipsed anything else and I didn’t really [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 27th, 2009
For the past couple days, my sons have been at their grandparents’ house, leaving the girls and me home alone. This doesn’t happen very often, so it has been great fun to have just us girls here, which creates a whole different dynamic. We’ve played a game; watched the American Idol finale, which I still [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 9th, 2009
I used to get so annoyed with my mom when I was a kid for treating my youngest sister like her baby long after she was one. Mom was always fawning over her, calling her cutesie names I’d never heard her toss in my direction and letting her get away with much more than my [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 8th, 2009
One of my closest friends was in a horrible accident with all four of her kids nearly two years ago. Her youngest, just a couple weeks shy of his 6th birthday, didn’t make it. Thankfully, the rest of them did. Considering they were in a mini-van that was hit by a semi going around 65-70 [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Apr 30th, 2009
I adore kids, especially little kids, but man, are they gross! Between their lack of propriety and their complete disregard for others around them, observing a room full of preschoolers has me frequently wincing. Logan has a perpetually runny nose and rather than taking the enormous effort and amount of time it evidently takes to [...]
