Hello from three years later. Obviously life stepped in and took me away from this little depository of ramblings, insight and sometimes helpful advice. Unfortunately, it’s not due to being kidnapped and carnally used by Peter Bishop in another dimension. (Damn it.) I’d like to say I took a three-year sabbatical and have returned with […]
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Don’t look for the exit, because there isn’t one. At least not one I saw. For years, well, just about three for Sweetness and 15 months for Mr. Man to be exact, traveling any distance in the car has been a veritable nightmare. We’re talking take the next exit, go straight to the bar, do […]
I typically have some pretty quick advice when it comes to toddlers and preschoolers, but when it comes to tweens and teens, my advice has to come from my studying and the advice of experts. I’m all about sharing personal experience here on Heligirl, so when Heather from Making it Work Mom commented on my […]
When I was growing up, the rules in our house were pretty similar to those in most households of the 70s and 80s: do something the parents don’t approve of, get punished. My brother and I were spanked with hands and wooden spoons. (In fact, I remember they even had a paddle in grade school […]
It’s been three weeks since my commitment to do something special with the kids once a week before Labor Day. On July, 20, I researched and wrote a list of the things I really wanted to do. Today we checked yet another one off the list. This morning, as rush hour was coming to an […]
Sweetness was driving me nuts last week. She was deeply entrenched in her “no” phase; using my floor as a toilet all week, refusing to get the hang of potty training; and was slapping her brother no less than 3,456 times a day. By Wednesday I was running out of patience with her. My focus […]
Sweetness has the power to crack me up and make my heart melt at the same time. This morning, while I was having my morning tea and checking e-mail, Sweetness heard a sound and asked what it was. “That’s Jack snoring,” I told her, without looking from the screen. She went into the living room […]
