...finding perfection in imperfection daily.
If there’s anythingI avoid and generally avoid pretty well, it’s failure. It’s not that I never fail (I wish), it’s more like I’m so afraid to fail that I rarely try things that involve the potential to fail. That’s some kind of living, Mommyfriend! Don’t I know it, friends. So with all my practice not […]
Listen my friends, there’s been a lot of ahem, discussion around these parts lately about what’s right and wrong in the land of parenting. I just want to say this: Parent your own way. Disagree with others, write your blog comments, and then go back into the world and parent the best way you know […]
I’m no stranger to the peril and personal freedom of staying home alone as a child. As a latchkey kid from about the age of 9, the first thing I’d do when I got home from school was search the kitchen for the best junk food I could find before settling in to do my homework […]
At the risk of embarrassing Boy Wonder any more than I already have as a mom blogger, I’ve taken to this post to reveal that he wet the bed until he was nearly 9 years old. I tell you this because bedwetting happens to older children and yet it’s something parents don’t talk like to […]
I told you before that I think parenting is hard. It’s the one thing I’ve worked hardest at without measurable success. I know my kids are awesome and stuff but I won’t really know what grade I got on this 18 year research project for a while yet. This kind of delayed resolution doesn’t sit […]
There’s a new sheriff in town and she ain’t happy. It’s the fourth week of school around these parts and according to my calculations, it’s faaaaaar too early in the school year for the after-school madness I’ve witnessed from my fellow parents. Listen, I’m a reasonable woman. I’ve been late for school pick up. I’ve […]
A few weeks ago my 5th grader was the butt of a class joke. It was a typical Wednesday when I picked Boy Wonder up from school. As he walked out of the gate I spotted a look on his face I hadn’t seen before, a rare combination of defeat and aggression. I immediately asked […]
When I left my corporate job last October to pursue a career in freelance writing, I told myself I was doing it for my family. I believed it too; spending 2½ hours a day with my kids rushing through homework, dinner, and baths hardly felt like the way motherhood was supposed to be. Once I […]
By some miraculous twist of fate my sons are potty trained. I didn’t have to spend much time training them; the personal ambition to “pee like Dad” was all the incentive they needed. Anyway, they’re potty trained and I’ve been cleaning up pee around the toilet and behind the toilet ever since. That’s not to […]
Not that you need to know (or particularly care) about my gynecological haps, but I need to have my IUD replaced next month, or not. Either way, I have to place my feel in the cold, cold stirrups, scoot my business waaaaay down on the edge of the exam table and allow a licensed professional […]
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