Last week was a doozy. Can I give you a little bit of a plot build up first? At the end of April, on one of my kiddos’ birthdays…I thought our refrigerator was quitting. We weren’t in a great place communication wise in our house (I’d like to thank the Coronavirus induced isolation for that, […]
Month: May 2020
Is Social Media Whispering These Lies to You?
I’m too much. I’m not enough. I’m just not good enough. We don’t need people to tell us we aren’t good enough. We tell ourselves when: We lose our temper.Someone lashes out at us.Another basket of undone laundry stares at us.Another floor sits very obviously needing to be cleaned.There are too many things needing to […]
10 Times My Heart Broke and Loved You in Your Motherhood
Expecting. What does that word even mean? Expecting what? The obvious answer- when we’re talking about motherhood- is a baby. And everything we think comes with the baby. But what we aren’t expecting, what we can’t be expecting, is exactly that- everything that comes with a baby. We see a picture in our head, of […]
The Parenting Hills You Don’t Want to Die On, Part 3/3
(Alternatively titled: My Wrath for the Bath) Okay, now that you know I’m not big on fashion statements with my kids and I don’t believe in potty training…what else have I thrown out of my parenting repertoire? Baths. Maybe I’ve gone full blown insane, but if so, I don’t want to be sane on this […]