Top 3 Signs You’re A Bad Mother
Top three signs you’re a Bad Mother – kindergarten is about to begin and…
Meena’s Mom
Once upon a time, in the years BC (before children), the idea self-identifying as “someone’s Mom” was not just foreign, but distasteful. To identify oneself as nothing but the appendage of another, to be nothing but “Meena’s mom”, represented an abdication of self. I couldn’t understand why other women would do such a thing.
10 Things I Didn’t Know About Parenting But Have Been Forced To Find Out
Top ten lists – everybody loves them. Everybody writes them. Someone else has probably already written this one. But here, nonetheless, is my modest contribution to the genre:
Lather, rinse, repeat. (Or: This is your brain on kids)
This morning I was in the shower… too much information? Again? Oh well. This morning I was in the shower. I was conditioning my hair when I suddenly couldn’t remember whether I had shampooed yet. I had to rinse it all out and start again. Then I “helped” my 3-year-old get dressed. I told her [...]
Too Much Information?
I just gave away all my maternity clothes and have been flogging various bits of baby gear on kijiji (Stay tuned! More to come!). But between Sara (who is expecting) and Julie (whose only crime is to blog about her family of six, and today’s post isn’t even about that), I suddenly find myself with [...]
Ode To Mommy Brain (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Girls, it is said, are made up of sweets, Sticky, and licky, and gooey-gum treats. Boys, on the other hand – puppy dog tails, Creepies and crawlies and eight-legged snails. But neither is true, as I’ve said all along, They’re made up of brain cells they stole from their mom. Inspired by Sara’s grinchy Growing [...]
Monday(ish) Moment: Bliss
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Bliss. ~ This post has too many words, too much complexity, for a moment so simple. Me, rushing [...]
Two Mondays. Two Moments.
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. My moments almost always seem to come a day or two too late, so this post is a double header: Last Week’s Monday [...]
Dress for the job you want.
I’ve heard it said that you should dress for the job you want, not the one you have.
I Am Momma. And I Am Surprised.
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Surprise The fishing trip wasn’t a surprise. It had been planned for months. Planned at a time when [...]
Other places I ramble
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