i wish i’d done this before giving birth
laying in bed one night about a week or two before going into labor i was staring at the top of my dresser thinking, “i need to get that sorted out.” the top of my dresser is a perpetual mess and a bone of contention – i’m a maker of piles, always with the intention […]
i’m a misfit mom
i was looking for hermey’s version, “you can’t fire me, I QUIT. why… don’t i fit in.” but i couldn’t find it. or i didn’t look hard enough. either or, this song kind of embodies where i’m at right now, when it comes to figuring out where i fit in the scheme of “mom”.
how do you cope with stress?
how do you deal with stress? how do you cope? for me, i disappear. i used to eat. like most young women, for awhile i turned to wine. that was a sad and scary time, but i somehow managed to turn that around. i think i put other people before myself – something you shouldn’t […]
fighting with frustration
i didn’t come into this parenting thing with an expectation it would be easy, i was under no false impression that we would sail through with flying colours. because it is hard, and i don’t think i had any idea of just how much of a struggle we were in for until dylan turned from a […]