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Wednesday, 17 March 2010

  • Problems with His Ex and Mom


    Ok, I'm new here...but let me start with my rather long story.

    I am buying a house and engaged to a wonderful man who is involved in a rather nasty custody dispute. They have been divorced for years, but this summer his ex-wife abducted their child and fled the country.

    It has been in the news, in the papers, it's rather messy. It's hard for me, and I feel selfish. his whole life is consumed with this international custody battle, and I'm not sure if she's ever going to come back. If she does come back we are going to be faced with raising his daughter, and I'm pretty sure I'm up to the challenge.

    We've talked openly about my fears More Here...

  • A Letter to My Daughter


    10 March 2010

    Hey Kiddo,

    It's unbelievable that you are nine years old today.  My goodness, where has the time gone?  I can't begin to tell you how much I miss you today.  This is the first birthday that you have ever spent away from me, but I'm sure that your Daddy is making it a good one for you.  It's good for the two of you to share special days like this.  After I put your little sister down for bed tonight, I got out some of your old baby photos and sifted through them, spreading them out on the floor around me, carefully picking each one up and admiring them.  I smiled, I laughed, I cried... but they were happy tears.  You might think that I'm crazy, but you'll understand one day. More Here...

  • Teaching 5 Year Olds About AIDS

    Yesterday I got a letter that was sent home from the principal of Little Miss Spice’s school.

    In the letter, it informed me that they were planning to teach my child about the HIV/AIDS virus.

    In it, it said :

    “Dear Parent:

    Your child’s teacher will teach your child about the HIV/AIDS Virus this week. The NY State Education Dept. has mandated that AIDS education be provided for ALL students grades K-12…..”

    Now, if Little Miss Spice were in grade 12, I wouldn’t think twice. Hell, if she were in junior high I wouldn’t think twice. 6th grade? Wouldn’t think twice.

    My thinking twice stems from the fact that my baby girl is 5 years old. Sure, HIV/AIDS education is beneficial and actually vital to our children’s education. But at what age do we proceed with such a topic? What is too soon, and is there an “appropriate” age for AIDs education? More Here...

  • Well, POOP! Two Stories for Your Enjoyment...


    Here's a pic of the little rascal in the infamous Bumbo. I'm starting to believe he thinks the Bumbo is a toilet or something because he almost always poos when he sits in it. ...I have a very advanced 4 mo. old!

    Ok, so I thought you Momaroos would appreciate two funny poop stories (Note: my DS (darling son) is EBF (exclusively breast fed), so you know how explosive that can be ).

    "Poop and Poop Again"

    Ok, so the other day, DS is sitting in his Bumbo when I hear him poo (it is almost always loud). Usually, I wait a few minutes to make sure he is finished, but lately he has been leaking, so I took him to the changing pad almost immediately. Well, I got his diaper off and started to wipe him off, when he decided he wasn't finished yet. I quickly caught the liquid poo in my hand (Oh, the joys of motherhood) and got us both cleaned up again and put on a fresh diaper. More Here...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  • How Do You Explain Death to Your Young Child?


    I was reading a status update on Facebook from a girl I went to high school with.  Her children were playing outside when their dog was hit by a car.  The dog then died in front of the smaller children and the mother is at a loss as to what to tell her sons. 

    It got me thinking because, well, we have two cats who will probably die sometime while the Dude is younger. More Here...

  • Parenthood Levels the Playing Field



    It's funny how much parenthood can change people. Just last summer, literally the day before we found out we were pregnant, my husband and I sat in a smoky cafe with a friend drinking beer and discussing this very thing. We mentioned our friends who had recently had kids and how they all seemed to disappear after their kids were born. They would never come out and do things anymore, whether they had an opportunity to find a sitter or not. It's understandable, we said, but it was still sad.

    Then we became parents. More Here...

  • Is Grandma Trying to be Too Controlling?



    I don't have the best relationship with my grandparents. My relationship with Grandpa is okay, but I'm very shaky with Grandma. 

    A couple months before I turned 21, Grandma asked what I wanted for my birthday. I told her what I wanted. Then she said she was going to get me something completely different. It didn't matter what I wanted; she was going to get me what she thought I should have. What she wanted me to have included bath stuff and lotion. Anyone who knows me personally knows I've had allergic reactions to certain lotions from Bath and Body Works, so I have to be careful with what kind of products I use from that store. More Here...

  • Can Moms Wear Them Too?

       

    There's really something that I want to try. Something that is really hot right now. Something that everyone else seems to be doing. I'm nervous though. 

    What would people think? 

    What would people say? 

    It's not something that I could do, and hide from, well... anyone. I even find myself fantasizing about it on a daily basis. I am just aching to try it out... but I am so scared. Maybe I'm too conservative. More Here...

Monday, 15 March 2010

  • Should I Allow My Teenage Daughter to Get Hair Extensions?


    Yesterday my sixteen year old daughter L asked my permission to get hair extensions -as in, sew-in, semi-permanent hair extensions. I'm sort of torn on whether or not I should allow this. 

    On one hand, my daughter is going through her formative years, and I understand if she wants to experiment with her appearance a little (as long as she's not experimenting with other things). She's old enough to understand the consequences of what she'd be doing, and old enough to make her own decisions. 

    On the other hand, I know a few things about hair extensions.
    More Here...

  • Baby Blessings -Gift for Mom and Baby...



    My friend Kelly is having a baby this month. Something that the resident wives do down here is called a "baby blessing". What we do is we write something (poem, bible verse, advice, words of encouragement, quotes, song lyrics, etc) on paper, and we read it to the pregnant woman, and present her with a small gift related to what we had written.

    I have written poems in the past, but this time... I didn't. I thought I would share what I wrote:

    Kelly,

    As I sit to write this, no rhyming words or iambic pentameter come to mind—probably because Isabel keeps opening up the “locked” cabinet doors, which she has figured to unlock, to make “music” with my pots and pans and the washing machine noise from Caroline’s latest spit up production is flooding my ears. Ah! The sounds of motherhood are a wonderful thing. Since I have no poem or prose and even a bible verse is alluding me at the moment, I will try to bless you with the truths about motherhood:

    1. Whenever you plan on going out, plan for at least an extra 15 minutes to get baby and diaper bag in car and an extra 15 minutes at the end of the outing for the same task.

    2. Don’t forget to make time for yourself and your husband. A date is what you make it out to be. You can have a date in your own home after the baby goes to sleep! More Here...