Today I feel like a down to earth mama….. lost on the trail…. without a compass. As many of my friends reach, or have surpassed thirty, there were very few that were happy about it. I, on the other hand, looked forward to it. I couldn’t wait. I naively thought that once I hit 30, [...]
Me: Sweetie, I am going upstairs to put Wise Guy down for a nap. Sweetie: Ohhhhh, but mom, I wanted to play with him. Why? Wise Guy whining in the background. Me: Well, he is starting to lose his mind. Sweetie: Yeah, but he still has his body.
Wise guy eating ice cream…… YUM. Sweetie and Ben listening to Frank Bey in the Summer Concert Series…. more on Frank Bey to follow….
Alright, so I am tired of playing the same thing day in and day out. It seems like we have gotten into a rut of playing with stuffed animals, or cars, or superheros. We haven’t done art projects or break out a board game in weeks (although I must admit, Wise Guy doesn’t make it [...]
Reading Is “sharing the work” between parents for suckers? by Jori Des Jardins struck a cord with me. I commented there, but I thought I would reiterate my points and expand upon them here. Being conflicted is part of the game of being a mother in today’s “gotta have it all” society. I live each [...]
Oh yeah. I’m there. Where, in a blink of an eye, the happy go-lucky cutie decides, at 20 months, to jump feet first into the terrible two’s. The wise guy has, as of Friday, decided that “No” is his new favorite word. Hand him a cup…”No”. Try to pick him up, he’s on the ground, [...]
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