Monthly Archives: July 2010

Raising Boys

July 29, 2010 in Just Life, Raising these kids, Staying Home Didn't Kill the Feminist, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

I’ve had more ah-ha parenting moments than I care to admit. You know, those times when you realize something as a parent that your intelligent-self would have noticed long before it became an issue? Like the time where I finally noticed that Elliot was not hot-natured like the rest of us and therefore a good bit of his early dismay was because he was freaking cold. Or that the reason Zach hated haircuts was because [...]

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Zach–Not to be Left Out

July 25, 2010 in Just Life, Raising these kids, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

My first son. My Big Boy. You’ve been on this earth for 39 months, 9 days. Wowzer. See, I was perfectly content to get sappy about your brother and save the Zach-sap for another day. Until I ran across this photo– Maybe it was because I had been looking through all of y’alls baby pictures. Maybe it was because it’s actually possible to have a meaningful conversation with you now. Maybe it’s because you delivered [...]

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Elliot, Mom is Sappy Today

July 23, 2010 in Just Life, Raising these kids, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

My second son. My baby. But–as you are insisting and I am realizing–you stopped being a baby a while ago. You’ve been on this earth for 20 months, 13 days. It’s completely surreal for me to look at you now and remember that you it wasn’t so long ago that you were an an 11.8 pound, 6 month old. I should have known from the moment of your birth that you’d do things your own [...]

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Wallets and Weather

July 17, 2010 in Adult ADHD Isn't a Bad Thing, Just Life, Raising these kids, Uncategorized

Having ADHD causes moments of extreme D’ohness, which I usually control nicely with pharmaceuticals. Sometimes though, my internal Homer breaks free and I got nothing but D’oh for ya. Two epic fails this week–read on and enjoy. First was The Wallet. No, it did not used to be a ziplock bag. However, my other one was really messed up after it got run over by a half dozen cars on the side of a busy [...]

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The Happy Mother Myth

July 12, 2010 in Raising these kids, The History of Women, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy", Uncategorized

If you haven’t read this article about Why Parents Hate Parenting, you should. Lots of good sociology-rich info about the change in modern parenting and why modern parents report being less happy than their childless peers. In a research paper co-authored by Ranae Evenson and Robin Simon, they reported that “parenthood is not associated with enhanced mental health since there is no type of parent who reports less depression than nonparents” (empahsis mine). Though I [...]

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The Club Sandwich

July 6, 2010 in Just Life, Women's Health

Ha, I’ll bet you thought this would be about food. Nope. Read on. My mom recently had surgery for a total knee replacement—her right knee to be exact which means no driving for Mom—and would need some adult assistance (her husband is disabled). This means, as her locally living, only child, and a SAHM to small children, that we were going to Nonie’s House for an extended visit. Not a social visit, either, I would [...]

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