I’m really not sure what’s worse - having the two boys wake up fighting each other, physically and verbally, on every single, tiny little thing.
Or when they band together and come up with new and wonderful ways to fight me.
What a freaking day.

Have you ever felt resentful of another adult directing or reprimanding your child? How can you say “no,” right? It’s very uncomfortable for us mothers, I think, for a whole host of reasons.
I’m nearly finished with Buddhism For Mothers, which I previously wrote about here, and I came across a passage that really made me [...]

Something just happened that made me feel like I needed to drop what I was doing and write this post IMMEDIATELY. See, I’ve been doing an awful lot of reading lately, and one common theme I’ve noticed in a few books has to do with our “inner voice” - you know, the one you talk [...]

As a general rule, I try not to judge other parents. But sometimes . . . well, sometimes things are so in your face that they are hard to overlook.
Today we took advantage of the warm, albeit dreary, weather and headed out to our favorite playground. All were happy in my family, as were the [...]

I kid you not, after our week, Sam came down with Croup last night. At one point in the night I simultaneously had one kid throwing up and one barking like a seal. It’s like a joke.
And I know ya’ll are tired of hearing about sick yuck. Believe me, I’m sick of writing about it, [...]

The other day Sam pulled down one of Hubby’s old photo albums. It contained pictures from when we were in college (we went to school together but didn’t start dating until months after graduation . . .), and we all sat together and looked at it. Sam asked who the people were, and I think [...]

I sat in the office of a psychologist last year, and listened to her make suggestions to me about how I might get through my days a bit easier, a bit happier. I was there just to rule out the possibility of postpartum depression. And after I spoke for a while about the things I [...]