37 days ago by Jayde Johannsen

Perchance the most daunting and massive challenge parents are beset by during the exercise of their role as parents is being able to provide an atmosphere for their entire family that is both safe and welcoming inside the home. To reach this outcome it is necessary to become a master of multitasking ...

37 days ago by cathwithglasses

Eco has been running his first little fever. The fever, however, wasn’t as overly dramatic as the incompetence of the pediatrician in question. We were lucky that we had a chance to “practice” with a relatively light fever – it never went higher than 38°C (although I my family, the general temperatu ...

37 days ago by Spilt Milk

My father died almost ten years ago. I have done my grieving in fits and starts. I think grieving is, perversely, rather like housework. It’s an inevitable, inexorable task. Some clean out their grief in a fairly regular, even constant, fashion. Others of us let it build, then binge, then rest a whi ...

37 days ago by Aliki McElreath

I've shifted the time I swim laps at the pool from lunchtime (around noon) to 8:00 am. While others might shudder at the thought of jumping into a lukewarm pool at 7:45 or 8:00 on these wintry dark mornings, I like it. I hate feeling groggy, and a brisk swim workout first thing certainly gets my blo ...

37 days ago by bluebirdmama

Last year at this time I was in the middle of my third trimester of a surprise pregnancy. I wanted to spend the last week of 2010 reflecting on the previous year and anticipating the next. I wanted to choose a word of the year. But I just couldn’t get past anticipating how the new baby would change ...

37 days ago by Mama K

I'm thinking of updating my LinkedIn profile to say - 'February - December 2011: Employed by Baby Boy K'. I worked full-time, I just wasn't paid in dollars and cents, I was being a mum. This week I made a return to the office and although I'm enjoying it, I am becoming fed up (and was constantly ann ...

37 days ago by Stasha

This might sound odd coming from a blogger, but I don’t much care for fame. Clearly I am not a shy flower, since you are reading my thoughts right now. You have on occasion seen a photo of me. But I bet you had no idea how utterly famous I am. Not only do I have a rock star dog that has groupies on ...

37 days ago by cautiousmum

Pictures of Ricky Schroder, Chad Allen, Fred Savage, and Corey Haim (RIP) used to adorn the walls of my teenaged bedroom. Torn from the pages of Teen Beat, Tiger Beat and Bop magazines, they hung on my walls, silent observers of my teenaged life. When I moved into my first apartment, my roomie and I ...

37 days ago by Claudia Grazioso

When I was pregnant and completely unable to sleep, I tried to look at it as a good thing. (What can I say? The hormones really do do funny things to your brain. Or maybe it was the sleep deprivation itself.) I reasoned that this was not some kind of torture, it was preparation for the sleepless nig ...

37 days ago by Sarah Ann

Well you know that it's probably been one of those days when you are up blogging at one in the morning. Can't get the ol' brain to go to sleep... I also can't seem to find the motivation to sweep the floor. I'm trying to visualize the one year old waking up in the morning and immediately shoving the ...