Category: Parenting
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The Firstborn is here! … now I have to tidy up.
.It’s release day! The Firstborn is born, a bouncing new book, ready to be read and enjoyed! (To help matters along, I’ll just get all the links and such out of the way.) Want to buy the ebook? (Ignore the fact that I sound like I’m selling knock-off watches from the trunk of my car):…
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Watch Me Ruin Everything
Today is Monday. Tomorrow is Tuesday. Constantly – CONSTANTLY – there is a list of things I need to do, have done, should be doing, running on a loop inside my head. I did history lessons with the kids, time to do reading with Ola, now I have to change the baby, and then I…
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Real Women Have… Shapes. All Kinds of Shapes.
**This was originally written on July 10th, 2014** I was probably doomed from the start. My parents were both slender. My father was 6′ 3″ and almost too skinny to join the Navy. My mom was 5′ 6″ and not even 100 pounds. So once the baby fat wore off, I was a bit of…
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May I Throat-Punch You Now?*
I have four kids. I’m saying that now to get it out of the way, because it will come up throughout this post. I have four kids, ages 6 (almost 7), 5, 3, and 3 months. Of course, when you have children, that means that anyone and everyone can come up to you and deliver…