Disciplining our kids effectively can be exhausting at times. We want to impart our values to our kids, but we sometimes fail due to sheer overwhelm or fatigue. Here are some of my best mom sayings to memorize to make your life with kids easier. I also explain why they work so well. Read on… […]
How to Get Over Mommy Guilt
The following is a transcript of an interview I recorded with Aviva Pflock and Devra Renner of Mommy Guilt. They join me to talk about their book Mommy Guilt: Learn To Worry Less, Focus On What Matters Most, And Raise Happier Kids. We discuss how guilt feelings are at an epic high in our time, and how […]
Well yesterday was… interesting
Never a dull moment around here. Studies show that parents of more than 4 children are happier than parents with fewer kids. Researchers speculate it’s because parents of large broods get accustomed to a level of chaos that would cripple other people. In other words, if I’m not in the ER, it’s a good day. […]
Josiah update: 7 months/4 months
Before & after
Us before: Us after:
What to do when a friend has a premature baby
Note: I wrote this post, about what to do when a friend has a premature baby, in November of 2014 and never published it. This is not surprising considering the chaos I was experiencing at the time. I decided to drag it out of my Drafts folder for World Prematurity Day 2016. Today is World […]
Nursing a NICU Baby
(Note: Now that my youngest son, a former 27-weeker, is two and thriving, I’m publishing several posts today for World Prematurity Day. This one is about Nursing a NICU Baby.) One of the things I’m proudest of in my life is that my 2 year old is still breastfeeding. It was a difficult journey, to […]
One last time
(Note: This is one of many posts I wrote during my 27-weeker preemie’s NICU journey that never got published. Some of them felt too raw to share at the time. Now that my son is two and thriving, I’m going back and publishing these for World Prematurity Day. Several posts like this will go live […]
The Gift of Laryngitis
I think it would be ideal if a mom lost her voice at least once a year. Just as a reminder. This morning, after a couple of weeks of sore throat, my voice was all froggy and croaky, then pretty much gone. Oddly, laryngitis can be a gift. It can illuminate bad habits that we […]
42 weeks pregnant: Ignore This Post
[Update 2016: I found this post in my drafts folder, never published. It’s now over four years old, like the baby. I was 42 weeks pregnant with baby #6 when I wrote this, and had never felt more (physically) miserable in my life. It’s funny how much of this I had forgotten. With my next […]