30 5 / 2012
"The truth about us is that we all need healing. Who is the service provider and who is the recipient? It’s mutual."
30 5 / 2012
Please reblog if you’d like to see a Parenting category in Tumblr’s Explore section.
(I’m tagging the editorial folks because I don’t actually know who’s in charge of this sort of thing.)
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09 5 / 2012
"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."
RIP Maurice (author of Where The Wild Things Are).
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20 4 / 2012
Sh*t my Kid Says
“Mama, I don’t want to snuggle with you!”
“Weellll….Mama, you put on panties too, you’re a big girl like me!” (as she hands me her Elmo panties)
18 4 / 2012
waiting
on my 2 year old as she has an EPIC meltdown temper tantrum. How long is too long? Here’s to hoping I haven’t caused any permanent emotional damage.
17 4 / 2012
Babbling…
Téa likes to begin most sentences with “I guess…” or, “Well…”. Sometimes she combines the two phrases. “Well Mom, I guess I’ll take a bath”—- pretty much slays me every.single.time.
Last night’s dinner for Téa was an epic Mommy fail. It consisted of fish sticks (secretly, kind of good!) and over microwaved leftover mac and cheese. I feel guilty just writing it here. Not a single vegetable or fruit made it to the plate. Sigh.
The latest two week wait begins. Keep your fingers crossed.
I end my evening with dessert—-my latest Real Simple and some Real Housewives of OC.
30 3 / 2012
Motherhood Object Lessons
Baby Hopes 2012 continues. I’m also starting fertility testing. I can’t even bare to say that phrase out loud. My parents tried for years to have a baby and my mom subsequently underwent a hysterectomy when I was about 6. So, having ” fertility problems” has always been my biggest fear. Is this my fate, I wonder? Am I like my mother and meant to only have one child? It’s funny, I always said, that since I already have a baby girl I am completely content and if I couldn’t have any more children, that would be okay. Now that it seems like more of a possibility, I don’t like that idea at all! Who was I kidding? T top it off, the whole world seems pregnant to me. Tori Spelling is practically 40 and she’s pregnant AND my lesbian co-worker’s wife is also pregnant. I mean, if a lesbian and a 40 year old woman can get pregnant, what’s my problem? (ANSWER—Maybe comparing my lady parts to Tori Speling’s is a start. I think know I’ve lost it.
In my heart I know things will work out, they usually do. I just need to let go of some control and throw caution to the wind. Not an easy task for a control freak—-especially for someone whose maternal instincts seem to have exacerbated my already freakish tendencies. I keep thinking about my experience breastfeeding and how it was anything but “natural” for me. I royally struggled, but I persevered. My experience was anything but easy and certainly not how I planned it to be. And that’s the thing, no matter how hard you prepare or try or plan, it all goes out the window when it comes to your kids, even your unborn ones. This baby is really putting my parental patience to the test—- can’t wait to meet him or her.
I feel much better now, thank you interwebs!
30 3 / 2012
"Once I stumbled out of the bedroom, hair unkempt, naked except for a nursing pillow around my waist. I looked like a feral child. John and I met eyes and I went on my way, back into the woods."
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30 3 / 2012
It’s Vincent van Gogh’s birthday! To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Sesamstraat, the Dutch version of Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop partnered with the Amsterdam-based Vincent van Gogh Museum, where Bedroom in Arles hangs, to recreate a version of the famous painting featuring Elmo, Bert, Ernie and the beloved Sesamstraat MuppetsTM Ienie Mienie, Tommie, Purk and Pino. The special painting, which was unveiled by Sesamstraat actor Frank Groothof, was on display at the museum in December 2011.
Read more about it here.
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