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On Being a Mother and a Time Traveler
The problem with getting older is that we only have our youth to compare it to. I look in my bathroom mirror, leaning gingerly over the dried toothpaste on my right and the puddle of what I hope is water … Continue reading
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When Depression Comes in Disguise
I just learned that May is Mental Health Awareness Month which is PERFECT because I just started taking anti-depressants again. Serendipity, friends; I could not have planned this better. Now this story, which I would’ve told you anyway, has a purpose. … Continue reading
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20 Things Every Parent Should Hear
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece titled You Don’t Have to Choose a Parenting Method to be a Great Parent. Today, hand in hand with that post, I want to share some words on parenting. Your words. Words … Continue reading
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How do you get through times like this?
I’m trying to write this morning, because I have important follow-up work to do charting your booger rules and stuff, but Greg’s home and he keeps making breathing sounds and clickity clackity click clack typing sounds and allergy season sounds, and, unbeknownst to … Continue reading
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You Don’t Have to Choose a Parenting Method to be a Great Parent
I walked the floor with a baby on each shoulder gently bounce, bounce, bouncing them, my back burning, hoping to ease my twins to sleep. They must’ve been just a few weeks old, our fourth and fifth kids, recently out … Continue reading
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On Living Life in Spite of Fear When Fear Still Holds My Hand
My friend, Abigail Rine, wrote a piece today on her blog, Mama Unabridged. It’s titled The Mother Wound, and it’s beautiful and gut-wrenching. Like parenting. In it, she reflects on her reaction following the explosions at the Boston marathon. What … Continue reading
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I Am a Seed
I lost it last week. I was overwhelmed. I was tired. Only the bra I HATE was clean. You know. The usual litany. And I just completely lost it. Lost. It. Not at my kids. At my husband. In front … Continue reading
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Easter Monday
Today is Easter Monday, and yesterday was perfect. The kind of perfect that isn’t perfect at all which is the way most of my perfection turns out these days. I woke up early like the women who went to visit … Continue reading
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On Leadership in Parenting
I spent most of the week at the Oregon coast for Spring Break. You know, after losing a kid in the forest and dropping another one in the river. That photo up there? It’s the view from our house this week. … Continue reading
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UPDATED: Thoughts on Hope (and a giveaway)
I’m headed out to my kid’s Individualized Education Plan meeting today. Or maybe the “I” in I.E.P. stands for something else…. Independent? Industrial-strength? In-which-we-all-work-hard-but-also-say-lots-of-Hail-Marys? I can’t ever quite remember the right term, even though we’ve been in the special education … Continue reading
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