Parenting Ain't For Sissies....

NO, of course not! I doubt that anyone reading this would disagree with me, at least I hope.

However, we had a container of potty treat M&Ms. I was cooking breakfast and they were playing in their playroom so nice and quite. After the split second thought of "wow they must have slept great last night!" Came a parents gut feeling #1.

Then it hit. "mommy, we just had a pic-nic in the play room" "with what?" "the M&Ms" My day flashed before my eyes. Too much sugar, too much energy, poor l… Continue

Sometimes no. I'm sure this statement will annoy a lot of moms, and I can't say what brought this thought on.

Recently I've been looking outside of my life's "box". Let's start with my partner. It's not uncommon for her to leave the house at 5:00 a.m. and not make it home until 8:30 or 9:00 p.m., check on the kids and give them kisses and hugs even though they're already sleeping.

A friend of mine is so committed to her career, and the people that she works with, that it's not uncommon for her… Continue

"....letting them play with knives" is a saying that a friend of mine quotes, and it's also the topic of jokes at the playground. Endless stories of how we wouldn't let our first child enter the fresh air outside of our house until he was 6 weeks old. Granted he did spend his first 10 days in the NICU....but whatever. When our second baby was born, we took him to the beach at seven DAYS old. He slept like only a baby can with the ocean breeze blowing on him, the sand washed off that night in the… Continue

It has been one long week! Without the energy or time for my favorite creative outlet....okay some may say creative, some may not. But in my opinion, my posts have GOT to be better then reading posts titled "what coffee are you addicted to today?" So work with me here since I'm an amateur. I, and hopefully you, need something a little more stimulating to read. I'm giving that my shot here. Okay, so I'm getting a little off track. Could it be because A-man is checking my heart beat with his steth… Continue

In regards to my earlier post, Murphy's Law, when our boys were put to bed directly after dinner there was the usual opening and closing of doors combined with "come in here, no you come in here."

Time outs have been decreasing, thank god, and I think that a time out during bedtime is not exactly discipline. It's more of a bedtime delay.

However, my partner was traveling and I was hitting the point of giddy exhaustion. They are both TERRIFIED of our security alarm, so I came up with what I thi… Continue