Tag Archives: parenting

Where did THAT month go???

Wow! Here it is April already. I hate the cliché “Time Flies,”  But March just whizzed past. My big milestone happened early in the month.  I hit 100 posts! It gave me a great time to reflect and see where I’ve been, where I am going and where I still am….in the trenches! My only…

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Mother Guilt Comes Around Again

Why is it so easy to be so hard on ourselves?? I was spending time with a very good girl friend of mine yesterday. She was lamenting about her daughter still not sleeping thought the night. She had tried various methods from the no-cry solution to full cry it out, and her daughter is still…

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Let Them Eat Cake! (….or Halloween candy)

At family birthday dinner a few months ago, my then-toddler excitedly shoveled spoonful after spoonful of colored frosting directly off the birthday cake into his mouth.  As the rainbow of colors smeared across his face, my father-in-law whipped out his video camera and everyone else laughed and snapped pictures.  The only child at the dinner…

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