I am depressed. I have depression. No. Depression has me. What is it? I forget that it’s there. Depression doesn’t have me. What is it? What IS it? A weighted blanket? A wet blanket? Shackles? A bag full of rocks? A dark cloud? No, none of these are quite right. If Depression was just […]
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Don’t Do It! Do It…
In an interesting turn of events the other night, we flipped a complete 180 with my wild card child! She’s 6. And as we all know, 6-year olds are honest. They are honest about what they see, what they smell, what they feel, what they taste, what they think and most honest about […]
Change The Story!
Watching Super Why with my girls every morning makes it white noise to me. I’m sure, in the same way my nagging requests are to my oldest daughter (6)…. Having a spirited child, who is resistant to change, I am forced to become a more actively creative wizard of words! If she was a compliant […]
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places…
If you’ve ever had your heart broken by someone, or even experienced the soul sinking feeling that your intense feelings of affection are either misguided or worse yet, not reciprocated… you should naturally not want anyone you love to experience anything like that.
Wild Horses…
Mommy victory! I speak in pictures. I’m a visual person. The good news is, my eldest offspring understands things in pictures! If you have a “spirited child” a wild child, a strong willed child, a feisty child, a Dennis the Menace, and the list goes on… you know that they can go from zero to […]
Toddler Scorned
Hell hath no fury like a toddler promised Frozen, and you can’t find the remote!!!!! Sounds like I’m disemboweling her!
The White Noise Of “No” … Just Let It Go!
As soon as these little leaches realize that they are autonomous beings, they want to see what they can do… Like Elsa when she’s finally free to use her powers as she pleases, she sings, “It’s time to see what I can do, to test the limits and break through, no right no wrong, no rules for meeeeeeee, I’M FREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!”
Busy Mom Finds Time…
Blogging with my thumbs right now on a break from packing to discuss the concept of TRANSITIONS! We are packing up to move (yet again) and everything is going smoothly! (Celebratory mom dance here). Davi (my spunky 6-year-old) has always had a tough time with transitions. Changing from sleeping to waking, from playing to peeing, […]
Pearls
Recently my 6-year-old has been struggling with the concept of… Well… struggling… Wait, what? Yeah yeah, stay with me here! She is upset when she sits down at the piano, or with a book, with some math, or a baseball and isn’t automatically an aficionado. She squirms in her seat (and in her own skin […]
Poop… And other messy things…
As I embark on the potty-training process with my 1.5 year old, I am slowly recalling this horrific process with my eldest daughter… I started out optimistic, (don’t we all) and decided upon my course of action (best laid plans) and determined it would be better than all of the parents before me… Yes, superior-first-time-mom-syndrome. […]
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