You know you have those days. The ones where you’re so preoccupied with something that you cant get it out of your head? The ones where you get so caught up in your own life that you can’t find the way to pull yourself out? I’ve been having one of those weeks. I didn’t blog TWO entire days this week…. Read More
Sadness and Sleeplessness.
My first real blog post in a few days. This will be fun. My keyboard is broken because I spilled water on it yesterday. Go me. I have all of these things that I want to write about, and yet none of them seem important enough to say. All last week, I experienced something so wonderful, so amazing it’s difficult… Read More
Sleep = Judgement.
As a mom, I have come to question why sleep equals good parenting. Why do people so often meet a new baby and immediately ask, “Is he/she sleeping through the night yet?” I can’t count the number of times I fielded that question before Ronan was two months old. I didn’t even hope that he would be sleeping full nights… Read More
You Are Right, Momma.
We, as moms, have this need, this terribly desperate desire for the positive affirmation of our parenting choices. It’s only natural. We want others to approve of what we are doing with our children. We want validation, support, compliments – anything to help us feel like we’re doing a good job. That feeling comes so rarely, and is so incredibly… Read More
I need to share this.
If you let your baby Cry-It-Out, don’t read this link. Otherwise, I think this is a very beautiful, powerful, well written post. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Let Her Cry.
Updating things.
One of the things they tell you when you start changing things is to only change one at a time. That way, you’ll know what it is that you did that caused the improvement. I never listen. We started Ronan on his reflux medicine, but around the same time I started trying a new ‘going to bed’ method. It’s the… Read More
