Dear kids, Happy Mother’s Day! To me! I couldn’t have gotten here without you. Thank you for all of your Mother’s Day gifts over the past 27 years, all the kisses and hugs, handmade pictures of your handprint, flowers, and funny cards with other people’s heads Photoshopped in pictures with me. I appreciate everything you’ve […]
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Why I Seem Weird: A Mother’s Day Letter to My Kids
Dear kids, Happy Mother’s Day! To me! I couldn’t have gotten here without you. Thank you for all of your Mother’s Day gifts over the past 23 years, all the kisses and hugs, handmade pictures of your handprint, flowers, and funny cards with other people’s heads Photoshopped in pictures with me. I appreciate everything you’ve […]
La Leche: French for ‘It’s Not for Everybody’
This is a story about La Leche League, but don’t expect it to be all “go breast-feeders” or preachy at all about the benefits of breast-feeding. You would have to off-the-charts postpartum to argue that breast-feeding is not good for a baby. But it’s a complicated decision at a time when people should not […]
Counting Kids
I’m counting kids and I keep coming up with the same number. Wait, let me count again, just to double check the math. One . . . Yep, one kid in this house. How did that happen? For starters, I’m a Mother of Three Kids. It’s one of my skills. I’m good at it, […]
Bad Moms are All Relative
Did I tell you all already that I take perverse pleasure in witnessing bad parenting? I think I did, but I may have dreamed it. If you’ve heard this already, go check your Facebook page. I’ll be right here when you get back, probably talking about something else. I get a borderline sick satisfaction […]
Hey, Look at Me! I’m a Good Parent!
I hate show-off parents. You know what I’m talking about and if you don’t, you might be one yourself. To find out, take this easy show-off parent quiz. Do I talk loudly to my child when in a public place when there are other people around? Do I over-enunciate words in a cheerful, chipper way […]