Posts About motherhood

tips for raising your spirited child

April 16, 2015

I don’t read a lot of parenting books. I know there isn’t one certain parenting style that “works” and so every book written on the subject will have things in it that I can take or leave. But with Meredith at age 3, I needed help. (I still need help.) So last year I read Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka and it was incredibly insightful. Here is a summary of the book and the notes I took. This post is pretty long and I considered breaking it up into parts but ultimately I thought it would be more helpful to have it all in one place. If you have a spirited child, you will definitely want to read this! What is…
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meredith lately

April 2, 2015

getting ready for bed she puts on her “nursing tank” and grabs two baby dolls… Meredith: I need two babies because I have two nursers! proceeds to pull down one side of her tank top and stuff a baby in her armpit. after hitting her head on a chair… Meredith: dangit! Me: what was that? Meredith: the chair say dangit. during a discussion about how she is going to go to a different school when she is old enough for kindergarten… Meredith: and Imma get BIG boobs and get milk in them and I’m gonna feed my baby! Me: sure! Meredith: (seriously) I’m GONNA get milk in them. while doing a floor puzzle and Liam keeps interfering… Meredith: he keeps…
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meredith lately

April 2, 2015

getting ready for bed she puts on her “nursing tank” and grabs two baby dolls… Meredith: I need two babies because I have two nursers! proceeds to pull down one side of her tank top and stuff a baby in her armpit. after hitting her head on a chair… Meredith: dangit! Me: what was that? Meredith: the chair say dangit. during a discussion about how she is going to go to a different school when she is old enough for kindergarten… Meredith: and Imma get BIG boobs and get milk in them and I’m gonna feed my baby! Me: sure! Meredith: (seriously) I’m GONNA get milk in them. while doing a floor puzzle and Liam keeps interfering… Meredith: he keeps…
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taking time for yourself

February 23, 2015

I have alone time on the brain this morning because I have a day off work, during which I planned to get lots done on my projects that I can’t do with the kids around, but Liam has perfectly timed his second round of pinkeye to coincide so instead I’m on motherhood duty again. Recently David and I both took a personality test and we had a date to discuss the results. It was fun! One of the aspects of personality it measured was introversion/extroversion. This has to do with what energizes you – alone time, or being with other people. Unsurprisingly, I scored high on the introversion scale. (Yet my personality type – ISFJ – is usually very social,…
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liam at one year

January 26, 2015

He: >weighs 23 pounds, 15 ounces (85th percentile) and is 30.5 inches long (74th percentile). Slowed down on the growth but still a big boy. :) >just got over yet another sinus infection, this time with eye involvement for fun. Oh the joys of giving a one-year-old eye drops three times a day! >has been super cuddly lately and is very much a mama’s boy (still). >is obsessed with this one mole I have on my upper chest and is always trying to pick it up. He doesn’t realize it’s not going anywhere. >likes to stick his fingers in my ear while he nurses. >is transitioning away from breastmilk at daycare which means we are nursing a lot more in…
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