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March 2012

March 22, 2012

Pursuing Lovely

I have been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be lovely. Hollywood...

March 19, 2012

Our Journey

Good Monday morning, dear readers! I have some news that I have been wanting to...

March 15, 2012

For the love of siblings

We had one of many "big family" exchanges on the playground today. A man and...

March 13, 2012

You know a pregnancy is going downhill when…

your youngest son (3) comments, "Wow, Mommy, that is BIG!" and he's not referring to...

March 10, 2012

Dismantling the Totem Pole of Selfishness

What do you mean I can't go running six days a week? Can't continue my...

February 2012

February 17, 2012

Just Do It, Mama

Seize the moment. "Get 'er done." Carpe diem. Yada, yada... There are times in my...

February 13, 2012

Friendship ramblings

On Friday I was extremely frustrated with my daughter for what seemed to be a...

January 2012

January 20, 2012

Help with Bed-Wetting

Back at one of our yearly check-ups, I can recall the doc saying, "Oh, you...

January 18, 2012

Body by Baby

I have had several painful conversations with friends and acquaintances recently about the effects of...

January 16, 2012

The First Two Weeks

Josie will be two weeks old tomorrow. It has been a very blessed and very...

January 13, 2012

Someone to Blame?

There is a line in one of our favorite songs, One by U2, that goes...

January 10, 2012

A Picture Thought

This morning, I am grateful for the memory of time spent together on the beach...

December 2011

December 31, 2011

After returning from a trip…

...It was so nice not to have to run out to the grocery store for...

December 11, 2011

My Statistically Unlovable-Improbable 3rd Child

I am an O- mom entering the last ten weeks of pregnancy, so it is...

December 09, 2011

To Guard Their Eyes

My four children and I headed to the grocery store first thing yesterday morning to...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Imagination and Lies

Thanksgiving is over, and Santa is about. We tend to be very realist; I have...

November 21, 2011

“Mom-nesia”

My friends and I often joke about "mommy brain" when we say something incomprehensible, forget...

November 15, 2011

Dinner Table Manners

After Juris Mater's great post on Body Language, I started thinking about manners at the...

November 10, 2011

To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade

My husband and I deliberately jumped off the runaway train of technology about 7 years...

October 2011

October 10, 2011

A Great Weekend

We had a great weekend here in our house, and although we were busy with...

October 05, 2011

It’s Not Fair!!

Leo has been in a phase of telling us all that everything is "not fair." ...

September 2011

September 27, 2011

On Being Home

In what has been for me a very busy week, I really appreciated this post.

September 21, 2011

The Anti-Galante

Tomorrow is cleaning day in G-Ville. Awesome, amazing, wonderful, breathe-new-life-into-our-home-and-my-mothering cleaning day. I love cleaning...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

What I’m thinking about today…

A good Monday morning to all of you, dear readers! Here's hoping that everyone survived...

August 22, 2011

Happy 5th Birthday in Heaven, Lucy Rose

On August 17th, we celebrated the five-year anniversary of our sweet Lucy Rose's birth and...

August 12, 2011

Marathon Mothering Without Birthday Stress

In the spirit of Juris Mater and Mary Alice's recent posts, I'm here to say, "Throw...

August 06, 2011

“I hardly ever play with my children.”

Last night, as I lay in bed stroking my 6-year-old daughter's hair, she rolled over...

August 05, 2011

To Power-Down Periodically

Periods of complete exhaustion are inevitable for a mother. Her nursing baby makes quality...

August 04, 2011

A Crying Shame

As the mother of a crying baby who I walked to the back of the...

July 2011

July 15, 2011

A Year in the Life of a Breastfeeding Mother

500+ hours That is the (grossly underestimated) time a mother sacrifices to nurse her wee...