Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a holiday when we honor our war dead and, more generally, our deceased loved ones. (And when, less poignantly, we kick off the summer travel season with barbecues and beer.) I’m spending today with Husband and the kids. We’ll probably take in our town’s parade with its [...]
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I have long been a fan of Meagan Francis and her blog, The Happiest Mom, where she dishes on juggling life as a working mom of five (!) and dispenses advice on staying sane while doing it. So I was thrilled when Meagan teamed up with the editorial team at Parenting magazine to bring her [...]
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You’ve probably gleaned from previous posts that I have a good relationship with my mother. The truth of it is that I have a great relationship with her: I value her opinion like no one else’s; I trust her moral compass; I never want to disappoint her; I want to someday have a relationship with [...]
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) – Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” with thanks to Lindsey for the reminder For the past few weeks the idea of contradictions has been stuck in my head. I’ve been writing in my journal about the ways in which [...]
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Big Brother just finished his first year of preschool. Seemingly worn out by nine months of twice weekly two hour play and snack fests, he recently declared himself ready for summer vacation. I was slightly less ready, apparently, and forgot to buy his wonderful teacher an end-of-the-year gift until the night before. I remembered in [...]
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So I think I might owe all of you an apology. Do you remember how, with perhaps not a small amount of self-righteousness, I spent a fair amount of time talking in the past about my aversion to new technology? In one post, I even wrote: And it’s not as though I oppose technology [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about where I am heading professionally. As you may recall, I was a high school history teacher for nearly a decade before I took some time off to have my kids. I had planned to go back into teaching all along, but I’ve hit a few roadblocks since September [...]
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I’ve been reading with great interest the conversation my friend Meagan Francis started over at The Happiest Mom about modern families hiring household help. And I know I’m not alone: in addition to sparking a hopping debate in her comments section, Meagan’s essay was featured at Simple Mom and Motherlode. I applaud Meagan for dipping [...]
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Hello, friends. Baby Sister is now three months old and I’m checking in briefly to share some of my observations on the first three months of our life as a family with three [kids] under four [years of age]: 1. Going from two kids to three isn’t nearly as hard as going from zero to [...]
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