Communication Confusion

Do you ever feel like you just can’t please anyone, let alone everyone? When you’re juggling a small family on your own, someone is generally mad at you, which is even better when none of your family members can communicate verbally.  Yes, all three of my children have their own means of getting things across [...]

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Two Dogs and a Baby: Practicing Patience

Parenthood is a very long lesson in practicing patience, but apparently it’s a lesson for everyone in the house, including the dogs. From the day Baby C came home, Dodger has lived in a near constant state of duality: intense curiosity spiked with nervousness. Dodger loves to follow C around the house, watching as the [...]

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Finally

Finally feeling better, but still worn out. Hand Foot Mouth disease basically sucks. And as much as I love my son, I now view him as a tiny disease incubator.

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Two Dogs and a Baby: thumbs

There are many differences between my babies, the most obvious being their different species, but no less important is Baby C’s thumbs.  Of all the gifts humanity has bestowed on C, the dogs most envy his moving digits which can lead the way to the dogs’ dearest wish: freedom! Now C’s ability to grip can [...]

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Two dogs and a baby: the waterbowl

I don’t mind him carrying my water bottle around like his own personal canteen, but I definitely have a problem with C using the dogs’ water bowls as his own personal wading pool. Or should I say, splash pool?

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Two Dogs and a Baby: Dog Beds

We have a plethora of dog beds at our house.  Penny and Dodger tend to go through beds rather quickly.  They both dig at their beds as if they were digging their own little dirt bed in the wild somewhere, behavior ingrained in them by millions of years of instinct.  However, thick cotton coverings and [...]

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Hippity Hoppity

Easter’s gone away!  And Baby C couldn’t be happier. For all my hopes that Easter would be the first holiday C would actually enjoy, it just did not happen.  This should be a life lesson to me to temper my expectations with reality.  I really should be more careful about managing them, as I find [...]

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Meltdown

In re-starting this blog I wanted to give people an honest look at motherhood, the good and the bad, the successes and the failures.  With that in mind, I write today’s post. I had a meltdown.  After a long week of putting on the brave face and saying, we’ll get through this, this will pass, [...]

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Babies aren’t Bad

Technically they can do things that qualify as “bad”, but they, themselves, are not bad. One of the hardest things about being a new mom, at least for me, is watching my temper.  I consciously know that Baby C does not behave naughty out of maliciousness or spite.  He has absolutely no idea what is [...]

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Views redux: the family bed

There were things that pre-baby I swore I would never do as a mother.  One of them was the “family bed” or “co-sleeping”. Like most parents-to-be I thought that this was just another crack-pot, hippy parenting tool that made no sense to actual rational minded parents.  You can see how open-minded I was about the [...]

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