Tag Archives: raising toddlers
Mama’s Friday Muse: Quitting Time
I have decided to take a blogging hiatus. Turns out juggling blogging, writing a book, running a business, raising two toddlers, trying to stay in shape, and maybe a minute or two of occasional “me” time is leading to inappropriate mood swings on my part. Unfortunately for my cat, I tend to take a lot [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Listen Up
I hate when I yell so loud at my kids that my throat hurts. There it is – a vague tickle lingering around my tonsils, all day reminding me that I behaved irrationally. But seriously, my irrational behavior is simply a response to their irrational behavior. Take the other morning for example: two identical plastic [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Carpe Diem
Okay…so I’m cheating this week and not writing my own blog. Hey, I’m on vacation. What do you want? Instead I’m sharing this article which I may as well have written since I couldn’t agree more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glennon-melton/dont-carpe-diem_b_1206346.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false Enjoy!
Tuesdays With Nana: Between Moms
What Every Mother Needs Is Another Mother To Talk To: This was the theme behind “MEET OTHER MOTHERS”, a mother’s group I began way back in the early 1980’s when my two youngest were babies. I had recently moved across country from CA to NJ in the dead of winter with my two-year-old toddler, Jill [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Mama Crimes
Confession #1: The other day I fished half a corn muffin out of the trash and allowed Paige to eat it. It’s not the first time I’ve done that either. Let me be clear though – first of all, it wasn’t touching anything gross and more importantly, it was obvious my two year old was [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Time On My Hands
Here’s a tip: do not greet a mother of two trying to juggle a career with parenthood first thing in the morning by flashing your freshly painted nails in her face and declaring that you spent two hours yesterday giving yourself a manicure complete with air brushing. Two hours? Are you f-ing kidding me? On [...]
Mama’s Friday Muse: Another Terrible Two
It seems I have a comedian on my hands. Paige turns two next Wednesday and for awhile now, signs of the terrible two stage have been imminent. For the last few weeks, her day care teachers have been enlightening me with the latest Paige anecdotes. Yesterday, she actually rolled her eyes dramatically at one of [...]
A Slice of My Life
I have just entered the house after finishing a grueling workout. I have that feeling you get after you exercise – total relief that it’s over, pride that I motivated to do it, and my abs feel just a little more toned than they did an hour ago. I’m on a high and am dying [...]
