May 27, 2010 in Homeschooling, Indoor activities, Life Lessons, Raising these kids, Uncategorized
Also, for anyone who thinks homeschoolers can’t teach their kid real subjects…let me point out a few of the conventional topics I taught today. In 4 year old terms (got keep stuff a little above his head for the challenge).
May 26, 2010 in Homeschooling, Uncategorized
Starting last Friday night, Elliot developed these ridiculously painful looking blisters in his mouth, a fever, and a refusal to eat. The kid might be skinny, but he’s never flat-out refused to eat. By Saturday morning all signs pointed to him having Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD). Today is Wednesday which means that Elliot has been quarantined since last Saturday. He does not like to stay home, as he pointed out by throwing shoes [...]
May 23, 2010 in Just Life, Uncategorized, Women's Health
If Facebook burned calories then I would have no need to write this post. I wouldn’t be getting ready to call myself a fat ass on the internet. Because if it did then all of those hours spent updating my statuses (status-i?) bemoaning and/or cheering the nuances of my day would have eliminated all this baby weight. If it did, I wouldn’t have to yell “FAT ASS” at myself in the mirror in order to [...]
May 19, 2010 in Uncategorized
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened ~T.S. Eliot I’ve been in a weird, funky place for the past few weeks. Not depressed, because I’m not sad. But…stuck somehow. It’s almost as if the combination of enough REM sleep and not enough Adderall has served to open up a few paths in my mind—some of which could have very much stayed closed. My [...]
May 17, 2010 in Raising these kids, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"
…than my 3.5 year old. At least for today. If you read my post Cooking for Small People then you will remember that I am becoming increasingly frustrated with cooking and feeding the people in this house. Today I looked at a pound of ground beef and just groaned. Zach won’t eat spaghetti sauce…and I’m damn tired of spaghetti anyway. What I wanted was meatballs. Meatballs present a challenge because they are both allergic to [...]
May 17, 2010 in Uncategorized, Women's Health
When I was approached by the Museum of Motherhood to write an article related to women’s health my immediate thoughts were of the big three—breast cancer, heart disease, and cervical cancer. Then my mind wandered over to the other big ones—fertility issues, thyroid disease and auto-immune diseases. I started doing research on what I had picked to write about, but my mind was dissatisfied with my choice. It kept wandering over to the problem that [...]
May 15, 2010 in Raising these kids, Uncategorized
Is it just me or is there nothing more annoying than trying to prepare healthy food for people under 4 foot tall? Seriously, I didn’t even really try to learn how to cook until I was home all day with small people. I had a few core dishes that I made with certain aplomb, delighted in the knowledge that I did those really, really well. But since neither of my kids will touch shrimp creole, [...]
May 10, 2010 in Just Life, Uncategorized
Any knowledge I have about siblings and sibling dynamics are purely academic and/or observational in nature. Certainly many of my friends have siblings. Many of my friends are also onlies. There are wide variations in their relationships among them all. I also did not have the benefit of being surrounded by any extended family thanks to the US Army. Geographical differences, us in North Carolina (mostly) and them in Louisiana and Illinois, made visits more [...]
May 9, 2010 in The History of Women, Uncategorized
I love looking up the origin and history of our current Hallmark-esque holidays. Since today is Mother’s Day, it was time to do some googling. The first of the Mother’s Day celebrations can be traced back to Ancient Greece and festivals honoring Rhea, the mother of the Gods (most notably, Zeus). As part of the assimilation of Christianity, the holiday was then rebranded as a day to honor Mary. It eventually morphed into a day [...]
May 5, 2010 in Just Life, Uncategorized
Because I haven’t yet. So there. Occasionally I find myself looking around and wondering what I’m going to do with myself once both of these kids are old enough to go to school. A career? A job? A Junior League volunteer (unlikely). A student? Hmmm…can I work out being a lifelong student? Wait, I didn’t really enjoy going to class when I was in college the first (and second) time. I feel like I should [...]
