Category Archives: Parenting

mom gone quiet

I recently wrote about Husband and I taking separate vacations each visiting our families flying it solo with the kids.  The payoff is that we each have time alone, the cost is that we continue to delay taking a vacation together (which we sorely need).  I had my vacation with the boys in July .  [...]

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water babies

(c) NotJustAnotherJen

So I’m having a mini mommy-freak-out right now.  And at the same time I don’t want to whip it into a froth either.  It doesn’t have to go that way (thank you Mr. P90X for that saying.  I learned that lesson from you.)  But as a parent, don’t you have those horrifying flashes in your [...]

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clueless parent prayer

I can tell that I didn’t do my yoga this morning.  I’ve been grumpy and snappy today.  I came home from a play date at the park and needed to revisit my Clueless Parent Prayer, so aptly named by JerseyGirl at Dirty Little Secret where I left a comment to one of her post about [...]

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will the real parents please stand up

So each month I get the magazine, Parenting: The Early Years.  I don’t subscribe, I just get it.  I don’t know why or how, I just do.  I occasionally read the articles, which aren’t bad, but mostly I just thumb through it for the short little snip its and tidbits because that’s really all I [...]

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