It’s easy to be a “good” mom during the day when the littles are happy and smiling and being cute… But what about nighttime parenting? That’s really where the rubber hits the road and your true parenting values come out.
I clearly remember thinking that four to six months was the most challenging [...] Pin It
So many of my earliest childhood memories center around playing house. Whether we were playing “Little House on the Prairie”, building a fort outside, or dressing and redressing our dollies, I always wanted to “play house” so I could be the mom, have babies, and mother the children. Now that I am the [...] Pin ItFriends, it’s been quite the year.
I celebrated my first year of motherhood. I watches as my baby morphed into a toddler. I lived through a category five cyclone and went without electricity for a week. I survived single motherhood for a month while pregnant with a toddler (yes please, hand me [...] 
By Jamie O’Donnell, High Countries
Ezra. You woke up again last night, like always — except I had puttered around the house instead of going to bed. So I was mad, really, that I hadn’t even closed my eyes before you started crying. And you were really crying. I never did figure out why [...] 
Lately I’ve had to try really hard not to feel sorry for myself. There. I said it. Sounds so pathetic doesn’t it? I can almost hear the whine wafting off the page… I wish I could say that I always have perspective, that I am always oozing with gratefulness, and that I always see the glass [...] |
     
 
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