Cupcakes

Tomorrow is the preschool Halloween party and I had to make something for Mitzi to bring. Funny how baking a batch of cupcakes could be stress-inducing.
I was really looking forward to this part of being a mom, the part when your child starts school and you can do things like cheer from the sidelines [...]

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Letting Go, Part 1

Mostly we forget that, as parents, the purpose of our role is to get our children ready to leave us.
When they’re babies or toddlers it’s easy to avoid thinking about this eventuality. After all, there are diapers to change, puzzles to solve, balls to bounce, and finger paint to squish on white paper. [...]

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Sock, Diego, and other words of importance

There are a few things that most parents obssess about as their babies grow — what and how the baby eats, how and when the baby poops or pees, how and when and where the baby sleeps. Another obssession is language development. New parents can spend hours with other new parents discussing this [...]

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I don’t know how she does it!

This past weekend I babysat for about 24 hours for Jen, with the help of my very experienced mother, and I needed to call in sick to work on Monday!I’m sure you just get used to it, the craziness, the tiredness, the whining… but I have to say, I’d rather listen to the whining at [...]

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No Time To Blog

I’ve been a mom for almost five years. In that time given birth to four beautiful children, three girls and a boy (though not in that order). In five years I’ve changed approximately 18, 000 diapers; read “Goodnight Moon” over 5400 times; wiped 14.2 gallons of spitup and/or vomit from my clothes and [...]

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