I thought that my oldest son Henry turning five would have hit me harder. But the busy tasks of putting on a birthday party kept me occupied and it passed without any major meltdowns on my part. And I thought that him starting Kindergarten would...
I've been doing a year-end recap every year since 2005 in this exact format on ye olde LiveJournal. Here's a slightly edited-for-the-public version of this year's. First, the annual memes: Year in meme: 2016 The method: Copy and paste the first sentence of the first entry of every month this year...
I'm not gonna lie. I've shopped around. I drooled over Waldorf School in Saratoga Springs. The nature walks. The cooking. The daily tasks. It's the ideal way to raise children, to my way of thinking — take what's tried and true from years of child-rearing...
I've known moms who quit their jobs after the first couple of days back after maternity leave. Heather Hickland, executive director of the World Awareness Children's Museum and fellow preschooler mom, emailed me that she remembered the first day was “always hard on the heart and...
Henry loves his daycare, but lately we've struggled with getting him there in the morning because he wants to stay home with us instead. This morning I called his bluff and said fine, he didn't have to go, but we had to get to work. For...
So there are definitely days where I feel like I'm failing at everything because I'm trying to do too much. But there are other days where I'm all "I got this" and while it's far from easy, I'm really freaking proud of all that I'm...
6:00 a.m. Woke up and had coffee in bed thanks to my wonderful husband. Henry was the perfect boy and read books in his crib while I showered and got ready in my businesslady outfit and darker lipstick than made sense in daylight. Then I brought...