Practicing Gratitude. Celebrating Life.
I’m going to take this writers prompt from MamaKat’s writer’s workshop and give it a 2nd go round. This time less tongue in cheek. My parenting advice would be to have a 7-7:30PM bed time. Its a lot easier to implement than you think and no, your children won’t get up at 3am.They earlier they […]
This new home project while being a blessing, is really testing me in all areas of my life and sanity. I’m not complaining, I’m just sayin‘ (as my southern friends would say). Take last week for example, I have to get out the door but I cannot find my cell phone…again.Have you been there? Big […]
MamaKat has asked for some solicited “unsolicited parenting advice” as part of her writers workshop. I’m new at this writers workshop thing, but fortunately I’m not new at the unsolicited advice! Dear Oblivious Mother,Yes, I’m talking to you. The one who has her child running around the restaurant while she nurses a martini and talks […]
Instead of reading the paper in the morning, I read blogs and twitter postings. For me, its a great way to start off the day and I sometimes learn new and interesting things that keep me feeling hip and “in-the-know.” Which is increasingly important to me for some reason. This morning McMommy posted about iGoogle […]
A friend of mine once shared her “list” with me. It was a list of things she would never do to her future daughter-in-law and as you can imagine, it was heavily based upon her own personal experience as a daughter-in-law. Since I heard of her list I’ve been keeping mine mentally. But after four […]