Raising kind kids with parenting that empowers
With my first pregnancy, I was so excited and nervous I just blurted out “I’m pregnant” with no cute pregnancy announcement. But with babies number 2 and 3, I planned a little better and found unique and fun ways to announce a new sibling in the house. And while our kids don’t always cooperate, there […]
The tiny little people I call my children make me feel so alive and yet the experience of raising them in the early years has sucked the life right out of me. Four long years of raising kids without a village and I learned to suffer in relative silence, simply hoping for a bit of […]
My third child was born with teeth. They were two little daggers waiting to see what damage they could do on me. And knowing the pain of both the newborn stage and the horrors of a biting baby while trying to breastfeeding, my blood ran cold just at the sight of them. Breastfeeding is hard […]
There was a sudden surge of running, bouncing, and peering up on the bed. It was 6:30 am and our dog Samson seemed to be going crazy. That or he was celebrating with us because in the few minutes previous, I gave birth to Rhett. While preparing for a baby, we addressed this, but because […]
You know how I knew I was pregnant the first time around? Because I couldn’t swallow a pill. Never in my life had I suffered from such a debilitating gag reflex as when I was trying to force myself to down my vitamins. It was like mind games because it was the one time in my […]
Author’s note: this piece was written in 2014 when I was the mom of an only child and when I was receiving many comments about how I did not know what it was really like to be a mom until I had more. Now the mom of four children, I still fully stand behind what […]
