Tag Archive for 'Motherhood'

Butter side down

Murphy’s Law tends to play a big part in parenting. You know what I’m talking about. How every time you attempt to sneak silently out of the baby’s room after an impossible bout of sleep fighting, every bone in your body will choose that exact moment to crack audibly. Or how your [...]

If you give a mouse a cookie

He’s going to want a glass of milk to go with it.
And if you take a two-year-old to a restaurant, he’s going to want the entire world to sit so perfectly on its axis that everything aligns to his specifications, or there will be hell to pay.
So, If you ever intend to take a two-year-old [...]

The smallest things

One of the things that makes me happiest

is seeing how my love of art has been passed down to my children

and how their joy makes me take time to smile at the simple things

and be even happier that I get to share it with yet a third little person.

Must. Step. Away.

With the impending arrival of a third little person in our family, I joined a “due date club” as I have with my previous pregnancies. As I check in from day to day, it’s becoming increasingly obvious to me that I really need to just stay away from those places this time around. [...]