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Spider Pig is Your Friend

April 15, 2012 in Just Life, Raising these kids, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

I often finding it refreshing (and–dare I say– fun?) to volunteer at Zach’s preschool. It’s extremely helpful to observe his interaction with Other Small People Unrelated to Him. My last volunteer day was also music day, and it was then that I was first introduced to Spider Pig. Apparently one of the other parents just loves the Spider Pig song. I saw a trying-to-be-cool-by-not-conforming-teenager wearing a Spider Pig t-shirt this afternoon, and when I mentioned [...]

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Gone Fishing

April 10, 2012 in Adult ADHD Isn't a Bad Thing, Just Life, Raising these kids, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

One of the many traditions of my childhood included these day-long fishing trips with my father. “Oh, how sweet”, you are thinking, father/daughter bonding. That would be a HELL NO it wasn’t sweet, folks. My mom used to make him take me to get a break (from moi?! I cannot imagine why!) My Dad would agree because he wanted to fish. Eventually these trips morphed into a form of on-location punishment for my (and likely [...]

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Got Juice? Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead

April 5, 2012 in Just Life, Raising these kids, Raising these Parents, Weight Loss, Women's Health

I went through a documentary phase and netflix made a (surprisingly) pertinent recommendation– Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. I am fascinated with the sheer amount of bad foot we all eat. My lifestyle– though better– still needs improvement. I do love my precious-es…internet, and books. I tried once to internet surf while running on the treadmill– not recommended. In order for the eventual adults I’m raising to make informed food choices, they need the knowledge [...]

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Spring Allergies

March 29, 2012 in Allergies- Food and Environment, Just Life, Raising these kids

In this house, three out of the four people, and one of the two dogs have seasonal allergies. It’s just me and Cruizer– the dog who knocked me off the treadmill during a thunderstorm– that are enjoying the smell of the flowers right now. Misty, the old bitch (shush- that’s a technical term!) scratching herself on everything, and doing the sneeze-in-my-face after farting-near-my-nose. I think the farting is just her getting old– but zOMG. The [...]

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The Lorax Project

March 27, 2012 in DIY Life, It's Easy Being Green, Just Life, Natural Gardening. Sometimes Organic, Pinterest, Crafts, and Home Decor Projects, Politics, Raising these kids

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing’s going to get better. It’s not. Sigh. People I just… sigh. Perhaps Dr. Suess had a bit of the Nostradamus, or maybe the warning theme of corporate greed and environmental waste was appropriate in the Seventies, too (cough-COUGH). Not like there weren’t any gas/environment/recession problems back then, right? Zach missed a Nate the Great play last week that I – GASP- had the gall to [...]

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Dr. Suess Quotes

March 25, 2012 in Favorite Children's Books, Just Life, Life Lessons, Pinterest, Crafts, and Home Decor Projects, Politics, Raising these kids

Anyone that has spent more than an hour of time in a Small Person’s* life will agree: some books you will read a thousand–NOT hyperbole– times. From that sampling of literary repetitiveness, some– and this doesn’t even twinge my tree-hugging, hippie conscience– will be lost, left, and/or otherwise metaphorically (!) burned. A precious thing, sanity. But never a Suess book; not possibly that. How ever could you possibly hate The Cat in the Hat? —->Shiny [...]

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Tantrums: You Can’t Legislate This Birth Control

March 20, 2012 in Gotcha Moments, Raising these kids, Raising these Parents, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

The public tantrum. That moment when an adult feels one of several reactions depending on their own life experience. I worked retail for a decade– I’ve seen my fair of epic tantrums. Excellent birth control reminders, all of them. I often judged those parents as pushovers being led by the nose like obedient cattle. In retrospect, many of those judgments were likely unfair, and more —-> because I was stupid. because I was stupid. because [...]

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All I Need is Just a Little Patience

March 13, 2012 in Just Life, Pest Control, Raising these kids

I’ve been listening to oldies with the kids… WHOA-HOLD UP! You’re saying the music of my youth is now considered an… oldie? You poor, sweet delusional dear. Yes, the 80s and 90s–you know, the good stuff– now seeds the pandora rewind stations. Affront will get you nowhere, but you can expose your children to quality music… There is NO NEED TO KNOW A BIEBER SONG. Pfft, I had NKOTB. Bieber. Anyway, this post nothing to [...]

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Rewarding the Good Stuff

March 9, 2012 in Gotcha Moments, Just Life, Pinterest, Crafts, and Home Decor Projects, Raising these kids, Raising these Parents

Listen, I’m a consistency pro when it comes to punishment/consequences. Should you ever hear me say “if you do X, then we are leaving”, followed by one of them doing X right in my face, you can be assured your next view will be of our departing backsides. Note: I’m not saying I’m perfect at this, but I trend toward follow through far more often than not. I usually have enough self control to warn [...]

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Feeding the Small People

February 25, 2012 in Allergies- Food and Environment, Just Life, Raising these kids, Things that Make Me Twitchy

Right? Is my kid too: fat, thin, tall, short, active, lazy, worried, ambivalent, loud, quiet, shy, fearless. Is he happy, sad, confident or scared? Eating enough, or too much? Every caring mom worries. Some of us worry to a clinical degree–medicate!–but most of us worry within the bell curve of normal. Some of us worry about one thing to an extreme (child abductions, oh my!), while maintaining a comfortable level of sanity for everything else. [...]

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