The hubs and I are planners. We got married and did not feel that the conditions were "right" to start a family. But...I really wanted to have a baby right away. For some reason I was totally against having kids in my 30s. My mother had me when she was very young. I felt the pressure of social expectations regarding marriage and having children right away. Yet the years … [Read more...]
My bulletproof baby
I'm bone tired this morning. I had a difficult time falling asleep and was up well past midnight. A couple hours later, Pea woke me up. She was wide awake, in what I have come to think of, as her pain position, knees up on a pillow, legs restlessly writhing. Calmly staring at me. Normally, our night time adventures start with her screaming incoherently about something … [Read more...]
Confessions of a book lover and Mary had a Sleepy Sheep Children’s Book Review
I am ashamed to say that reading a book at bedtime was a rare occurrence around here until recently. This is odd considering that my extended family still jokes about my nose being in a book whenever they saw me as a kid. Little do they know, I still always have a book with me...it's just on my phone and I can switch between listening to it and reading it. (I love … [Read more...]
Vacation is over: 4 More Newbie SAHM revelations.
I finally feel like I crossed over the working mom to work at home mom bridge. The holidays are over and school is back on. After a few days of actually catching up on behind the scenes stuff for this blog and having some writing work, I've determined that the only "staying" that this mom is doing involves staying in front of the computer "working" (while the kids are at … [Read more...]
I did not sign up to be your short order cook!
When I think of quitting my job last month to stay home with the kids, an image of Princess Buttercup shoving the Dread Pirate Roberts, aka Wesley, down the hill, hearing his "as you wish," and jumping after him plays in my head...except I am the one rolling down the hill and Pea is standing on Pork Chop's shoulders shoving me. Then they both jump in after me. I left a job … [Read more...]