Fourteen years and six months ago after polishing off a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes by myself, I took a pregnancy test. I have no idea what prompted me to do this or why I even had a pregnancy test at home in the first place. It was positive. I was drunk […]
Parenting
We All Mess Up. A Lot.
I post pictures of my kids on Facebook and Instagram or here on the blog doing stuff that’s noteworthy or admirable or whatever all the time. Like this picture of Number 5 when she was Timon in the 4th grade play: And this one of Number 3 the night of his 8th grade graduation: And […]
Happy Birthday, Number 5 and 6
It was Number 5 and Number 6’s birthday yesterday. Since it was also Number 3’s 8th grade graduation last night, I wanted to be able to celebrate on their actual day. But since we are also still in school, I had to get creative. So I picked them up early from school, along with Number […]
It’s Cliche But It’s True
Today was Number 5 and 6’s birthday and also Number 3’s 8th grade moving up ceremony. I’ll get to the birthdays tomorrow. Today was very busy and very tiring and I just wanna go to bed but I am 4 for 4 with 4 posts in 30 days, and I am on a massive action […]
Sometimes I Forget To Take My Own Advice
I am one of the first people to preach the importance of allowing your kids to experience disappointment and discomfort and failure. To allow them to sit in discomfort without swooping in to rescue them and to make things better. And then today I was presented with one of those situations. I am not presenting […]
In This House We Do Half And Half Summers
Yesterday a friend of mine shared this (from Smashed Peas and Carrots) on her Facebook wall: I love this. In theory. And I know it works for some people. Maybe it works for most of the people. But for me it doesn’t work. Not all of it, anyway. We do the sleeping as late as […]