co-parenting
I thought co-parenting was easy before I actually became a parent. I assumed that all one really need do to make sure that their potential spouse was suited for the job of parenting was ask. But, I’ve...
View Article5:30 am
I remember hearing of moms who would wake up at 4:30 am in the morning to do a morning run by 5:30 am. I remember hearing of these women as a single woman and thinking that they were crazy. “How or why...
View Articlebaby’s sleep
This post should be written on my other blog, but since this is on my mind tonight, I’m writing it here. This post is about sleep, specifically my baby’s sleep, or my toddler’s sleep. When she was...
View Articlethe hardest part of co-parenting is…
…accepting that you can’t make your parenting partner into something that resembles you. It’s accepting that you must let go of control, of your way in order to allow your parenting partner to find...
View Articledinner at 8
I went out to dinner tonight with a friend from college. What? I know it sounds like such a small thing, but really, let me repeat that again. I went out to dinner tonight with a friend from college....
View Articleboys will be boys and girls will be…
I have long been interested in girlhood, or what it means to be a girl in the 21st century. I remember my girlhood vividly. I remember the pieces of it, the quilt from my grandmother, the pink...
View Articlethere’s something ironic about this
When I was a kid, my mom was a stickler for us, or me and siblings, using the “right” words when speaking with her. When calling our names, she asked that we say, “Yes,” not “yep” or “Huh? or “What?”...
View Articlemy happiest moment is right now
She’s running through this dense field of overgrown dandelion and buttercup flowers, yellowed beneath the glistening of the sun, and dirt patches. She’s smiling, broadly. Her feet quickly moving in...
View Articleparenting books
I’ve been reading a lot of parenting books lately. Well, not the kind of parenting books that dish out parenting advice in the kind of explicit “let me help you” kind of a way, but I’m talking about...
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