Soothing yourself with food is not a horrible thing!The idea of self-soothing with food has a guilt-inducing reputation. Yet, to think of comforting oneself with food as always bad is…
When I was in first grade, I was riding bikes with a friend and managed to do a front flip over my handlebars when my bike hit a stone. I…
You gotta love Mondays…or not! In my mind, Mondays are the day for a fresh start. I assume I will start the day feeling refreshed from the weekend and ready to…
Like many, I spend a lot of time shuttling my kids around. I work over an hour from my home, yet I put more mileage on my car on the…
My dad and I used to play the game “mercy.” We would squeeze each other’s fingers to see if the other would give in first. We never did. Oddly though,…
When my son was four weeks old, my husband had to escort me, hysterically crying, out of our local Starbucks. We had been quietly sitting there with our newborn when…
Just about every situation has positives and negatives. I try to be fully in the moment for those positives and not be distracted by the downside. This is definitely a…
When I was roughly 11, my grandmother lovingly teased me that she was going to hang a sign around my neck that read “I’m sorry.” She was hopeful that doing…
What do you do when you write a blog post in answer to a question and then find out you misinterpreted the question?I don’t know what other bloggers do, but…
After reading the book Small Animals by Kim Brooks and writing my post “Small Animals Considered,” I have been particularly tuned in to the role fear plays in my parenting…