Do you know that feeling when you’re reading something and you think YES! YES!! And you sort of get this chill down your spine and your heart races a little because the words you are reading are so spot on your thoughts and the emotion is so intense you feel like you might explode if… Continue reading My biggest tug-of-war is with my old self
I felt so fuchi (gross) this morning. It’s always like the last 5-10 minutes before finally exiting the house where every once in a while I just feel so overwhelmed by it all and I get the most negative thoughts swirling around in my head. I think of how damn hard parenting and all of… Continue reading Cut Loose
The worst kind of anticipation is waiting to get news that you don’t know will be good or bad. The week leading up to finding out the results of my thyroid mass biopsy was unnerving. I am a worrier by nature. My mind always comes up with the worst case scenario, and boy did I… Continue reading Anticipation
I have a bad habit of not really posting consistently when life things come up and then I find myself having to recap a few weeks back to bring myself up to date in order to write about what I want to share. A few weeks ago my husband and I had a body… Continue reading About a parent: My mortality
Because a little humor, especially in the world of parenting, goes a long way. Always. Tonight I am so tired. The kind of tired where I’m sitting on the toilet and I start to fall asleep. Yep, that tired. Today was a pretty fantastic day filled with errands (the good kind, the ones you… Continue reading Wanted: Rest
For 5 years we have had a crib in our room and it is so odd to see that big empty space now. Odd, but nice. Odd and a little bit nostalgic. Today we moved the crib to the room that now the girls will share. Elysse is a year and one month and we… Continue reading Lights on, children out
I had an early morning walk today with a friend I care a lot about. After our walk that expression that you never know the burden someone else is carrying, so always be kind, came to my mind and held so true to me in that moment. A rush of feelings came flooding in.… Continue reading Stir within my soul
Well the meltdown of all meltdowns happened earlier this evening. It was almost epic. Mommy lost it a little. After an evening of non stop moments of being needed as a mom, I was trying to wrestle our 1 year old into her damn PJ (which is equivalent to getting a drunk person into… Continue reading About a mom: Total downward spiral
On Tuesday, January 19th Elysse turned 1 and on the morning of Wednesday, Janaury 20th I nursed her for the last time. I felt a little sad that day, but the realization and wave of emotions didn’t come until tonight. As I sat in our usual rocking chair and I held her in my arms… Continue reading Weaning and weeping
Buahahaha! I was laughing my a** off at this one. I swear my husband and I must’ve had an exact moment like that cuddly couple on the couch when we decided to make the big leap to have a baby. Or something similar to that. I read a blog post the other day that… Continue reading Parenting: How we got suckered in
Purse Meets Diaper Bag 