Tag: Parenting
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Back to School
No, not me. Yes, I’m planning on doing grad school. But that’s another time, another post… this is about my baby who just started highschool. He was sitting on my bed last night while I was working on paying bills and sorting paperwork, and he was talking excitedly to me about the extra credit his…
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The Shape of Responsibility
Yesterday I talked about how I savor my freedom, and the independence I have gained that means I can do whatever I want to do. But you mustn’t think that the responsibilities I have tie me down or restrain me from that freedom. Instead, they define me and give me purpose in life that propels…
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First Things First
When I was training for search and rescue, and as a First Responder, the thing they hammered over and over was to stop and assess the scene before you dove in to rescue the injured or lost. If you jumped in and got hurt or dead, then who was going to help? Humans have an…
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The Mantle of Motherhood
Since the inception of this blog, I’ve talked about my kids, parenting, and all the thrills and chills that involves. Which is only logical since this blog in it’s earliest form was a Mommy blog, started before facebook was a thing, to tell my far-flung family what was going on with these new little people and…
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MoT
My baby turned thirteen yesterday. My Eldest will be 20 in January. Four children in a span of 6 1/2 years, is it any wonder I still can’t wrap my head around how big they have gotten? I spent half a lifetime, it seemed, with babies in diapers, or toddlers, but now they are taller…
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Consequence Parenting
The Little Man couldn’t find his favorite sweatjacket this morning. It turned him into the Tasmanian Devil. He was running around the house pulling out drawers, rifling through closets, and yelling back at his sister that he did put it on the coatrack where it was supposed to be. It’s a mystery. I suspect he’ll…
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A Gross of Forks
“Can you buy a gross of forks? If it were just the two of us, that would last us about five lifetimes. With the kids, it’ll be lucky if it lasts us five years.” We were standing in the kitchen looking in the silverware drawer, where there is indeed a dearth of forks. I’d found…
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Love is… Motherhood
I am a mother, four times over, so I can speak to the ways that love forms my relationship with my children, and how I’ve parented over the years. I’m not a father, hence the title. Some of these things may resonate with fathers, but men are different than women (quelle suprise!) so fatherhood is,…
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Making a Gear Shift
My daughter and I were talking recently about learning to drive. She’s very excited about it, at the same time concerned over getting it right, and we were talking about shifting gears. I don’t know, she told me, when I need to shift gears. And how many gears are there? Four, five? We got the…
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Python and other snakes
Mornings here are sometimes a bit chaotic. One kid leaves early on the bus, one leaves late, and the other never goes away. This means that I’m up, early, and then it’s two hours before I have time to think for more than ten minutes at a time. Yes, I know that’s plenty of time…
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Fisking 27 Ways to be a Modern Man
Written by Sanford Begley I’ve never fisked anything before, this much stupid annoyed me into doing it. For those of you who wish to see the original idiocy. No need really, I’ll be copying each point here before replying. His points will be in normal font, I’ll bold my replies. 1. When the modern man…
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Blast from the Past: Parenting and Books
I will return to live-blogging tomorrow, but this essay finishes the mini series that began three days ago. Definitions Perversion: the alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended. Morals: 1. a lesson, esp. one concerning what is right or prudent, that…